where there is light there cannot exist darkness...

the other day, a dear friend hit a little rough patch, so what better solution/distraction to everything in life than a hike.  on the drive up i was talking about how grateful i was for life. i had read in the morning one of my favorite quotes from our living prophet, Thomas S. Monson:

 "the grateful man sees so much in the world to be grateful for and with him the good outweighs the evil, love overpowers jealousy, and light drives darkness out of his life."  

my friend then suggested, "let's do a grateful hike".  for every letter of the alphabet we had to come up with something we were grateful for.  here's what i'm grateful for...

aspen trees
brooke
chile
dad
egg salad sandwiches
food
german (not like the language...pronounced hair-mahn...my chilean dad)
health


we only got to "h" because to all there is a story.  perhaps i'll finish the alphabet some other day.

what are you grateful for?

peace+love