Coal Miners
Its funny the things we are grateful for. Friday night I was grateful my Delta flight was taking off on time and I was going to be home by 8. And last week I was grateful that I found my watch. But when the governor of Pennsylvania shouted out that those miners were alive and the reporters cheered, then you saw him on camera high-fiving other members who were involved, it made me think about what I <i>REALLY</i> am grateful for. The fact that after over 3 days those 9 guys came out alive, and that the nation was watching and hoping but expecting the worse, well, it made me stop for a second and think. Think that out of a nation of 270+ million people, I was grateful 9 of them were alive. I was grateful that a group of men, performing a job I know nothing about and will never be part of, a group of men who I will never meet and who live different lives than me, were able to hold on long enough to be plucked from death. I am <i>GLAD</i> the Yankees won today (Sunday, July 28), but I am <i>GRATEFUL</i> for my daughter. I am <i>GRATEFUL</i> my father survived cancer. I am <i>GRATEFUL</i> for my health and my family and friends. And I am <i>GRATEFUL </i>those men survived.