Glad To Be Here
For anyone who feels or wants to feel a sense of destiny...or anyone looking for the gratitude of all gratitude's.
Have you ever felt a sense of destiny or considered just how much had to have happened for you to be here? I'm thinking about this after listening to my dad describe a series of events that led him to the New Yorker Hotel one night in 1961. While there and dancing with someone else, he and my mother made eye contact. When the song ended, he went over to her, asked her to dance, and the rest is my family's history.
The chances that a young man from the Sandhills of Nebraska would cross paths with a young woman from Yonkers, New York were pretty slim. Even less likely - the years later discovery that the home my mom grew up in was on land owned by my dad's ancestors 150 years earlier. You might say they were meant to be or beshert. If that were the case, then I was meant to be - I was written in the stars. My siblings could say the same, but they're not here, so let's keep this about me.
We all have back stories to how we came into being, whether they include "love at first sight," a complete accident, or what some might have thought was a really bad idea. Either way, we're all written in the stars. How we got here is less important than that we are here. This at the very least is something to be grateful for as many of us celebrate Thanksgiving.
Wishing you peace and gratitude all the days of the year,
Courtney
Warm wishes and Happy Thanksgiving to you too Dr. Snyder! You are deeply appreciated :). Your parent's story warmed my heart.