30 Days of Gratitude – Day 14:
Express gratitude to a community worker (police, firefighter, mayor,etc.).

[Before sharing my previously penned thoughts on today’s gratitude focus, I want to express my deep sorrow and promise of prayers for the people of Paris, following the multiple attacks they faced yesterday as a city…as a nation. Above all else, may I encourage you—and all of us—to pray for Paris. It is a sobering reminder for us to be all the more grateful for this day, for this moment, and for the perfectly timed recipients of today’s gratitude focus.]

Daily planners probably don’t work well for many of those who serve our communities. After all, EMTs can’t schedule emergencies. Law enforcement officers can’t pencil in the timing of a 911 call. And even mayors and other community leaders can’t always predict what their next hours will hold as they make themselves available to help others on a daily basis. Yet these public servants and community leaders willingly and, more often than not, sacrificially choose to make their communities better in whatever ways they can.

And for this, they deserve our gratitude.

Take time to e-mail or send a card to the community worker (police, firefighter, mayor, etc.) you chose to thank today.