My Gratitude Jar
All year long, I keep a gratitude jar on my desk.
When something especially meaningful happens—big or small—I write it down and drop it in.
The jar is for the extra-special moments. Gratitude itself is part of my everyday life—family, friends, good health—but I try not to overlook the small comforts, too. A warm fire on a cold night. A quiet breakfast with my husband while Tucker snores beneath the table.
Those moments don’t always make it into the jar. But they matter just the same.
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Preserving a Year
At the end of 2025, a reader shared something that stayed with me. She told me she keeps a spiral notebook filled with quotes and Bible verses she’s collected over the years—pages she can return to whenever she needs them.
Inspired by her, I decided not to simply empty my gratitude jar and move on.
Instead, I started a notebook and taped each gratitude note onto the page, one by one—giving those moments a permanent place before starting the jar again for 2026.
I filmed the process as it unfolded.
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A Year of Gratitude — 2025
These four short videos capture that quiet ritual—reading each note and preserving it in my notebook.
There’s no right way to watch them. One at a time. All at once. Or not at all. They’re here whenever you feel like lingering.
Gratitude Jar — Part One
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Why I’m Sharing This
Writing is often a solitary business. This small practice reminds me how much a year is shaped by connection—by readers, by quiet encouragement, by moments that might have slipped past if I hadn’t stopped to notice them.
If listening along brings a memory of your own to mind or encourages you to save something you’d otherwise let fade, then this page has done exactly what I hoped.
Thank you for being part of the year these notes came from.
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The jar is already filling again.