A – Z of blessings
Thank you to everyone who shared their lists of blessings with me. I can’t include every single one but here is a selection of the popular, the personal and the pretty unique! I haven’t included personal names although the people mentioned obviously meant a lot.
You had to send your lists before we got to the end of the alphabet so I hope you will enjoy the ones I have put against X, Y and Z…..
A: Art, afternoon teas, being active, adventure, azaleas and Aurora Borealis
B: Birds, bees, butterflies, bluebells, beauty of nature, the Bible
C: Colour, curiosity, creativity, catkins, chocolate, cheese, cuddles and Christ
D: Doctors, daughters, daffodils, dogs and the dedication of volunteers
E: Eyes and eyesight, enthusiasm, energy, excitement and expeditions(!)
F: Family, friends, football, fun, fathers, forget-me-nots and fellowship
G: Grandchildren, grandparents, goodness, gardens, gratitude and GOD
H: Health, husbands, hope, happiness, hugs, homes and hyacinths
I: Imagination, intelligence, inspiration, innocence and irises
J: Jokes, joy, jonquils and Jesus
K: Kindness, knowledge, kingfishers, koalas and knees
L: Love, laughter and life itself
M: Memories, mothers, medicine, music and moonlight
N: Nature, nurture, narcissi and neighbours
O: Opportunities, orchids and openness to others
P: Peace, prayer, passion, praise, photographs and primroses
Q: (a tough letter!) Quietness, questions and the queen
R: R: Rest, relaxation, rainbows, reading, rain, roses, remote working and
resurrection
S: Seasons, sunshine, stars, singing, snowdrops, sloe blossom and sons
T: Trees, tulips, technology, time, tears and truth
U: (another tough one) Umbrellas and unicorns (…..!)
V: Violets, vanilla ice cream, vows and viburnum
W: Work, water, wood anemones, waiting and wisdom
X: The Cross!
Y: Yellow, youthfulness and YOU!
Z: Zoom, zoos (the good ones), zinnia and zebras
Sharon