Positive Lease and Gratitude

I am sitting in the quiet lobby of a cancer clinic on a foggy, chilly Denver morning. I guess I mention it should be quiet. A woman is shouting on her cell phone in the annex above where I sit and is shouting about an argument she said had with someone in her life. This place is a hospital where people are fighting for their lives. It is serene. People come and go with chemo drips, oxygen masks, wheel chairs, and pale expressions. I am so full of gratitude this morning. I don't have to live with an oxygen mask, a chemo drip, a grim prognosis or a wheel chair. I get to wrap may arms around my daughter and have her tell me she holds me too tight.

I was in a coffee shop this morning and I am plagiarizing this, but won't soon forget it.
"Go home early and play with your kids."
"Technology is good, but people are better."
"Stir emotions."
"Run your feet. Not your mouth."
"Do the Hokey Pokey."
"Hold Hands, Not Grudges."
"Tell someone you love them."
"Pick up the check."
"Build communities, not empires."
"Dream Big, Act Bigger."
"Re-read your favorite book."

This comes from a coffee cup. Just a plain coffee cup that people toss in the trash every day, but when I listened to the woman above me in a hallway shouting to who seemed to be her arch enemy, I looked around and realized I am in a place this morning where people fight for their lives and I get to be grateful for mine.