The Grossnickle Family

Robert, Danelle, Leavi, Jaydn, Kole and Kyzen

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

GTD(Gratitude of the Day)

I am grateful for EXERCISE! It feels so good to really work up a sweat and get out of breath:) It makes me so darn happy! I am grateful that I can go to the gym and take classes that torture me for an hour, no really they are so great! The people in the boot camp class are so helpful and encouraging! There are at least 2 new people each time and now I can say I am a veteran! I still have a really hard time doing ALL of the exercises with great ease..ha ha! But I really work hard!!! Today there was a guy( he could not have been older than 25) in the class who did my "round" and he was , dare I say it, very cute...he looked over at me and, get this, said" Do you know CPR I think I am going to have a heart attack?" then he smiled really huge and , hang on to your seats folks...he winked at me..hee hee! I kept trying to make comments like " I have an excuse for not being superwoman here, I have 4 kids!" and I was blatantly flashing my wedding ring but he just kept flirting with me. I didn't know what the heck to think so I just smiled and thought" Guess I have made a difference with what I have been doing!" Totally funny experience!!!No Kidding! I am SO not used to men (normal ones anyway, picking up on me).

I am grateful I have made so much progress and that I have been strengthened along my journey by God! I am grateful that I am feeling more like my old, happy , bubbly, friendly, positive self lately! I am grateful I have this body and that I haven't gone so far as to totally ruin it yet! I am definitely on the right path for my health this time and I know it will last for the rest of my life! I am grateful that we have prayer so that we can ask God to help us with these very difficult trials...nothing is too small or too ridiculous to ask God to help you with it! NOTHING! You know, we all will always have trials, some really hard and some just so so but to know there is a God out there and that He wants to comfort and strengthen me so that I CAN endure to the end is what keeps the ol' head held high and the smile on my face ...not to mention hope and peace in my heart!

This life is amazing! MY LIFE IS AMAZING!

BE AMAZED TODAY!

4 comments:

Danika said...

That is a good story.

Really? I can ask anything? I forget that sometimes and so I only ask for the Heavy things. Maybe I should give the Lord a break and just help me finish the day fulfilled and happy

Ju said...

Love the story, those kinds of things always lifts one spirits :o)

Anonymous said...

we missed you this morning. i got a good work out, felt like my lungs were on fire when we got to the top of the last hill!

Ellen Kimball said...

Hi Danelle,

I'm so proud of you! I thought you might wish to visit my daughter, Linda's website.

You can link here.

Linda is a very good person and an observant Jew. In Hebrew, a "mitzvah" is a good work. My daughter pledged to do 1,000 mitzvahs after her father passed away on our grandson's birthday (12/1/06).

She will continue the effort until March 23, 2009, which would have been my former husband's 73nd birthday.

By the way, my daughter is 40 years old, with two children in elementary school. She lost thirty pounds after her second child was born. She is my inspiration and I am so proud of her.

In peace,

Ellen