Days Full of Thanks: 1-2

Day (1). I'm thankful for All Saints' Day.

To my East Texan friends: Do not be confused and think I'm speaking of the private school in our hometown. :)

All Saints' Day is a church holiday (holy day), November 1 of each year, on which we remember and celebrate the saints of the church--those canonized, those we have encountered in our everyday lives, and those unknown. I could never really get into this day, though I always wanted to.

But this past Thursday was All Saints' Day, and the worship service at Candler was just so beautiful. It wasn't specifically the music or the sermon or any one thing (though all were wonderful), but just the spirit of gratitude and reverence that I felt from everyone in the chapel. It was one of the most poignant times that I have experienced "the communion of saints," both here and gone.

Day (2). I'm thankful for flexibility and grace.
I inherited these awesome barometric pressure sinus headaches from my mom, though hers are way worse than mine. Mom's last for 2-3 days, whereas mine usually just hang out for one.

Sometimes I'm able to go through the day and just ignore the headache, but every once in a while I have days where I am completely laid out flat. I can't do anything except sleep because it makes me too nauseous to sit up. Today was one of those. Incidentally, I was slated today to have a job interview and tutor for my Contextual Education site work and go to dinner with friends. Along with your typical I-need-to-read-for-school-and-go-to-yoga day. But I couldn't seem to do anything but sleep.

The thankful part of this is that, when I do get these headaches, I feel like they usually come on days off from school, for which I am very, very grateful. And things just tend to work out. For instance, today, the manager from the potential job called me and needed to reschedule for next week, my partner and I were able to postpone our tutoring session, and we are planning to move that dinner to the near future. And schoolwork can always wait, right? ;)
(I am feeling much better now, but still not 100%. So that's well enough to blog and watch The Office on Netflix, but not quite well enough to handle theology.)

What are you thankful for today?