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Newsletter –January 2025

By Debbie Sorensen Founder Welcoming Words

Gratitude

Well hello there! The good news for the new year is:  Welcoming Words can promote a spirit of gratitude. When we turn the calendar over, we can choose how we respond to a new month or year. Let’s think about what we can do to live a healthier life in 2025.

Health has many components; nutrition, rest, stress, joy, faith, fulfillment, purpose, wisdom … The list goes on. Sometimes circumstances in life put us in a place we would rather not be. While we may be unable to change our situation, we can change our attitude.

I want to challenge myself to improve my health by developing an attitude of gratitude. Would you like to join me?

Below, I have created a checklist for gratitude. Perhaps you can use this as a springboard to make your new year more positive and encouraging. Not only for yourself but those around you.

We’ve hit a rough patch in our life right now. People throughout our country and the world are going through terrible times and rough patches. We are in this life together and it is certainly high time for us to grow up. Let’s take responsibility for our actions, but also choose to make a difference when circumstances are out of our control. I want to propose to stop my crabbing, finger-pointing, and using miserable words. I want to get over being silly. I want to live in a way that will be a good example of faith, truth, joy, and what is right. I want to live my life for my Heavenly Father.

I was recently reminded by a friend not to confuse life with God. Life is not fair. But God is. 

I believe there is a powerful message in that and I want to pay attention. 

My heartfelt wishes to you, are for a new year with gratitude and blessings such as you have never known. I pray that through gratitude, each of us can make a difference right where we are  

Gratitude Checklist:

G-Gratefulness

R-Responsibility

A-Availability

T-Truth

I-Intercession

T-Trust

U-Understanding

D-Dependability

E-Eternal

Contact: Debbie Sorensen at [email protected]