Quiet Water

Today I am overwhelmed with gratitude because of the simplest of things.

Things which may be taken for granted, but are major beauties in my life.

1. The Silence

How many people wake up to the noise of diggers and workmen outside their window,

Or lie there listening through the wall to the neighbour in their bathroom.

How many people go to sleep listening to shouting next door,

Or lie there listening to the endless traffic below.

One of my greatest joys, is the silence where I live. I am so fortunate, blessed, lucky, delighted !

I can hold my breath, and hear nothing except for my own noise.

When I step outside my door, and all I can hear are the birds.

My background is being raised in a big city (London), so this peace and quiet is something I will never take for granted. I am so grateful, permanently appreciative, wonderfully thankful.

Thank you Thank you, I say constantly.

2. Water

How many people in this world do NOT have fresh running water? Most of the world, I think.

How many people have to walk miles to collect some untreated, brown, muddy liquid that's collected in a well somewhere?

How lucky, blessed, favoured, happy I am to be able to reach for a glass, fill it with clear water, and drink my fill.  This is something I will truly never take for granted.

And as if that wasn't wonderful and amazing and incredible enough, I can have a shower in water!

I watch clean sparking water coming out of the shower head in wonder and awe.

I watch the precious liquid running down the plughole in extreme appreciation.

Life giving water, that millions of people need to survive, I have in abundance.

Thank you Thank you, I say constantly.