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Unspinning with Gratitude

I can’t explain how grateful I am for gratitude. After spinning around in my head for a couple hours, I decided to “unspin” by listing some things I am grateful for. So, here are ten to help me surrender the spin to God…I’m sure there’ll be more to come as I often find myself in that spin:

  1. My Mother: I don’t remember a week that I didn’t get a letter for her on my mission and now I don’t recall a week she hasn’t texted me to tell me she loves me and prays for me.
  2. The Roof Overhead: Despite my indignant circumstances I am coming to appreciate the simple things like a place to live and the good faith of my roommate to trust I will rise again and be on my feet.
  3. Food: Sometimes I think, there’s nothing to eat, but even though this childhood saying pops back up every now and then I always have had food to eat. I’ve got very creative with my Ramen. 🙂
  4. The Word of God: Feasting wouldn’t be complete without food for the soul. I am learning to be humble and fight my tendency to do other things instead of reading. When I do this I find that God is near.
  5. Music: In moments where no other external stimuli can reach me, music often sooths the savage Ryan. It can pick me up and amplify my good mood. It can rearrange my priorities and give me clarity again.
  6. The Faith of Friends: There’s a saying that’s so true and it goes something like this, when we reach for the best within us, we give others silent permission to do the same. I have been lifted by the faith of others.
  7. My Body: Though I don’t always understand the way that I feel, I can’t help but love the learning process and how a quiet ear can bear great insight into what ails us at any given moment.
  8. Prayer: I can’t explain just how much strength I get from submitting to God in daily prayer.
  9. My Ability to Think: While overthinking is never too good, I am grateful for the gift of reason. Combined with prayer there is no challenge I cannot conquer.
  10. Repentance: The word I understand simply means to turn to. To me this means turning to seeing things honestly as they are and letting go of things I cannot control. God is good 

Audio Posting via WordPress.com

 

In my usual fashing I am trying a little tinkering with technology. I have set up a blog with WordPress.com and have turned on the Post by Voice feature. Next, I set up FeedWordPress on my own wordpress blog to pull in that feed and save the post as a draft. I then make a call, punch in my blog code and ding! I have in short order an audio clip inserted into a draft post on my website. I then can add text, pictures, etc, tag it, rename it and post it to my blog.  Sweet! Tips: I noticed that I have to make sure to click the “Manual editing” checkbox in the Syndycation section of my post editor, else when FeedWordPress goes out to check the blogs it’s pulling feeds from it will reset the post back to the original post content. Also, editing is a little fussy in the Visual Editor, erasing content & the audio player. You may wish to hack it in the HTML editor.