Being Like a Blade of grass

My ten gratitudes for today are:

1)  The wind.  I love how it feels on my face.
2)  Laughter.  Either by me or anyone else.  The sound of laughter makes me smile.
3)  Clean clothes just after they get out of the dryer.  The smell and the feel is comforting.
4)  A nice hot shower.
5)  The ocean.  The sound of the waves as they hit the shore.  The feel of the ocean spray.  The sandy beach on my feet.  Love it!
6)  Good shampoo.  There is just no substitute for a good quality shampoo. 
7)  My phone that is kind of my brain in the palm of my hand.
8)  My sister.  I don't get to see her very often and life is so busy but I think of her all the time. She is someone I look up to.
9)  Hugs.  Yes I'm one of those people  LOL
10)  I'm going to say my family, friends and my boyfriend.  I know they come up a lot but...always thankful for them. :)  They all inspire me and encourage me.

One day I was out doing yard work and pulling weeds.  Something I don't completely enjoy but know that it is part of the whole home ownership thing  and I do like to have a nice looking yard so I do it.  As I was pulling weeds I noticed that a small blade of grass had grown up through part of the concrete on my back patio.  I pulled it out not thinking much at first but then as I continued about my chores I found my mind wondering back to that blade of grass.  I started to think about how amazing it was thtat something so small and fragile could still be strong enough to permeate something as hard as concrete.  A part of me almost felt bad for yanking it out and throwing it away. LOL 

Sometimes it is easy for us to think that we are small and too fragile to acomplish much.  We may tend to run in to obsticles in life then stop or even run the other dirrection.   We may listen to our drunk monkey when it tells us that this obsticle is too much for us to handle.  Even small blades of grass don't let obsticles prevent them from rising up.  It has a job to grow and it just does it without taking any outside circumstances in to consideration. 

A blade of grass is pretty impressive!  I want to be a blade of grass!

Have a fantastic weekend everyone!