gratitude

i am grateful today for breath and life.
for friends that reach out from across the ocean.
for the ocean,
and that it's right outside my window.
for the smell of coffee grounds mixed with boiling water
and all the mornings of memories that it brings with it.
for the brave forsythia who blooms before everyone else
promising spring
reminding us it will come.
yellow hope amid gray scraping branches,
'there is more. don't give up!'
for my yogurt cover this morning,
God's whisper to me.
because the mercies are enough for today
just. and tomorrow, there will be new ones.