The Notebook
Have you ever gotten a new notebook or journal and it's so pretty that you don't want to write in it and mess it up? My daughter-in-law picked up a pretty spiral notebook and gave it to me about a year ago. I loved it 1) because it was from Brittney and 2) because it was given to me for no reason. She knows I always take a notebook to church to take sermon notes so she thought of me when she bought one for herself. The pretty notebook has sat in my kitchen untouched. Sometimes I would pick it up, look at it, and put it back down. It wasn't that I didn't want to use it — it was that I wanted to write something special in it and I didn't know what to write. I wanted the words on the pages to be as special as the notebook. Our pastor preached a sermon on the Sunday before Thanksgiving called "Every Day should Be Thanksgiving." As he preached, I thought several times about my mother who had an amazing heart of gratitude. After she died, my sister and I fo...