Melody on Gratitude

Tomorrow Secretary Robert McDonald, the head of the VA in Washington, DC, will be visiting our VA and conducting a meeting with all of the citizens of Hot Springs. Many have lost hope for keeping our VA in our town, others are still working and have hope. Either way I have taken comfort in a poem I recently received from one of our veterans who will be more directly impacted by the decision than I.

GRATITUDE

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
And creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

We may lose a wonderful VA, but we must keep our gratitude. It is our hope.