TRULY, I’M THANKFUL By Pat Garcia @pat_garcia

Today is Monday, and I asked myself what this week would bring. As a woman who contemplates the elusiveness of time and how difficult it is to grasp, I have long realized the wheel of time doesn’t move by weeks, months, or years but by seconds, minutes, and hours that make a night and a day into twenty-four hours. What we do with our twenty-four hours is up to us. We choose.
Knowing that, I have decided to take the seconds that turn into minutes, the minutes that turn into hours, and the hours that sum up the complexity of the earth’s rotation around the sun and see time as a one-day gift to live and enjoy. Each day I awake is a new beginning, and I am thankful for that one night and day.

Have a lovely week!
Shalom shalom,

Pat Garcia

Author: patgarcia

Writer, Blogger, Poet, Singer, Musician

15 thoughts on “TRULY, I’M THANKFUL By Pat Garcia @pat_garcia”

  1. Sonia Dogra – A writer/poet/copyeditor/ex-educationist/mother/plant-lover/reader/yoga enthusiast/mountain girl/keen walker. There's not just one facet to me. I love responding to submission calls and sitting long hours and sometimes for days and months, working on a single poem or short story before turning it in. I enjoy the process of watching my writing go from a to b and then to z, and meandering on an unknown path before having a life of its own. I'm here to share my written pieces and random thoughts, read out poems that I love, and discover life through the lens of a writer.
    Sonia Dogra says:

    Thank you for your wisdom, Pat!

  3. pdoggbiker – Sterling Heights, MI USA – I'm a Vietnam Veteran and author of six books - 3 about my experience during the war in 1970 / 1971 and 3 other memoir type short stories. My website includes everything "Vietnam War". You'll find 500+ personal narratives, photos, videos, music from the era, book reviews, and book trailers about the #VietnamWar. Read our stories and engage with other vets...we all had a hand in shaping history during that time.
    pdoggbiker says:

    You go, girl!

  4. I like your expression for time’s movement: “the wheel of time doesn’t move by weeks, months, or years but by seconds, minutes, and hours that make a night and a day into twenty-four hours.”

    Just last week I re-read the line that “the evening and the morning were the first day.” I have read the story of creation so many times. How could I have missed that the Hebrew (?) calculation of a twenty-four period begins with the evening, not the morning. I guess I have a lot to learn.

    1. Thank you so much, Marian. Not only you have a lot to learn, but I do too. We will continue to learn until HE calls us to be with Him.
      Shalom shalom

  5. Patty Perrin – Florida – Author of Teen/YA SciFi Adventure and Inspirational Non-Fiction, I'm an avid reader, happily married to the love of my life, a mom and gramma and a light and salty follower of Jesus Christ. I grew up an Army Brat in Europe, had no television, and subsequently read books for entertainment in-between adventures that my parents never knew about. My TETRASPHERE series is one I would have loved reading as a teen, which is why I wrote it. I still enjoy the Teen/YA genre, along with SciFi, Fantasy, Time-Travel, some Romance, Mystery, and a few non-fiction categories. If it has print, I will read it. If I can squeeze it into my Kindle, I will read it. You can find out more at www.ptlperrin.org.
    Patty Perrin says:

    Experiencing every day as a gift is one of YOUR special gifts, Pat! Your gratitude is an encouragement and confirmation to me that THIS is how God wants us to live life. “This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118:24

    1. Thank you so much, Patty. Isn‘t it wonderful to experience one night and one day at a time. Psalms 118 is one of my favourite Psalms.
      Take care and God bless you.
      Shalom shalom

  6. Bette A. Stevens – Central Maine, USA – "I'm a writer inspired by nature and human nature!" ~ Bette A. Stevens Bette A. Stevens is a retired teacher, a wife, mother of two and grandmother of five. Stevens lives in Central Maine with her husband on their 37-acre farmstead where she enjoys writing, gardening, walking and reveling in the beauty of nature. She advocates for children and childhood literacy and for monarch butterflies, an endangered species. Stevens’s children’s activity book, THE TANGRAM ZOO and WORD PUZZLES TOO! was first published in 1997 by Windswept House Publishing, Mt. Desert, ME; a second edition was self-published by the author in 2012. AMAZING MATILDA , Stevens's second children's book, self-published in 2012, won a 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (Honorable Mention for Excellence in Children's Literature - Ages 6 and older category) and placed #9 on The 2013 Gittle List TOP 10for Self-published Children’s Picture Books. Stevens has written articles for ECHOES, The Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture based in Caribou, Maine. In 2013, the author published her first book for the YA/Adult audience: PURE TRASH, a short story of a boy growing up in rural New England in a family whose poverty and alcoholism mark him as a target for bullying by young and old alike. This short story is a prequel to Stevens's debut novel, DOG BONE SOUP, A Boomer’s Journey released in January of 2015.
    Bette A. Stevens says:

    Beautiful, Pat!

    1. Thank you so much, Bette. I have missed you, and I hope you are doing fine.
      Take care.
      Shalom shalom

  7. Author Jan Sikes – Texas – I am an award-winning author. I love creative writing and I love music. I've published four books that are true stories written in fiction format. They are entertaining like fiction, but everything did actually happen. I've also published a book of poetry and art, nine fiction short stories, and a paranormal romance series (The White Rune Series). I enjoy promoting other authors and Texas music artists!
    Jan Sikes says:

    A beautiful outlook, Pat!

    1. Thank you so much, Jan. I am finally getting back to my blogging.
      Take care.
      Shalom shalom

  8. Shirley Harris-Slaughter – I love old buildings and history. That's why I ended up writing about the history that surrounded me all of my life - "Our Lady of Victory, the Saga of an African-American Catholic Community." Plus our church had closed and the school is torn down, so I felt it was imperative that we preserve the history or it would be lost forever.
    Shirley Harris-Slaughter says:

    It is nice to wake up to your deep thoughts. Thank you for sharing.

    1. Thank you so much, Shirley. That is a very high compliment and I accept it wholeheartedly. I am who I am because HE made me.
      Take care.
      Shalom shalom

  9. Stories by Karen – USA – Black began writing in 2010, combining imagination and experience to weave dramatic plots with believable characters in descriptive contemporary settings. She writes in a variety of genres, her character-driven storylines filled with adventure and drama in real-life situations. A four-legged character appears in most of her publications, a testament to her passion for animals. The author of novels, novelettes, and short stories, her books have received awards from Readers’ Favorite, Page Turner Awards, Literary Titan, International Impact, and KCT International Literary, along with accolades from Kirkus Reviews. Black lives in the United States with her husband, and two alien creatures disguised as cats. One of them, her muse, is rumored to be ET’s second cousin. The rumor, however, has not been confirmed.
    Karen Black says:

    I love your attitude, Pat! 🤗

    1. Thank you so much, Karen. I so appreciate your dropping by.
      Take care.
      Shalom shalom

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