Black Friday

Last week at this time I was getting over Black Friday. I was sick all last weekend! The Outlet Mall, where I worked opened at 12 Midnight! (Thursday night/Friday morning)I worked 12 am till 11am, yup 11 plus hours, then I was back at the Gap Outlet at 11 hours later at 10pm and worked till 7am Saturday morning. Putting the store back together and pulling clothes fro the backroom.


Since, Thanksgiving commences the Holiday season, I pulled out my top three CD's to lesson on my 45 min commute to work. They're Barbara Streisand, Josh Groben, Julie Andrews. I first put in Josh's CD, while I listened, all those Christmases from long ago come back. That will be a later blog.

However one song that I have forgotten Josh singing played - Thankful- I replayed it and I thought how much this reflects my life with my hopes. We all get caught up in our own lives and we forget to see each other for who they are. I have tired to live to be able not to judge people, because I do not know about their own life experiences or what might have happened just before I met them.

So I share once again Lyrics from a song my boy Josh sings.



Someday we forget
To look around us
Somedays we can't see
The joy that surrounds us
So caught up inside ourselves
We take when we should give.

Look beyond ourselves
There's so much sorrow
It's away too late to say
I'll cry tomorrow
Each of Us must find our truth
It's so long over do.

Even with our differences
There is a place we're all connected
Each of us can find each other's Light.


So for tonight we pray for
What we know can be
And on this day we hope for
What we still can't see
It's up to us to be the change
And even though this world needs so much more
There's so much to be thankful for.



So I hope each one will find their truth and look beyond themselves and connect with the light that shines in everyone and see the joy which is all around.