I really love today's quote. I've definitely lived through times where I wasn't using the gifts I was given, or spending time with the ones I'd been sent.

Too often I have spent my life doing what was expected of me by others. It didn't take much on their part. All they had to do was ask, and I'd go the extra mile for them.

It didn't matter who they were, where they were from or even if they cared about me or not.

What a waste those years were. How much I could have accomplished, how much more I could have enjoyed them.

But the more and more I spend my time using my gifts, like writing, teaching and speaking, for those who do care about me, and for those who don't expect anything from me... who just love me, just as I am... I become more and more grateful for these gifts.

I enjoy them more. I enjoy my life more. I enjoy my gifts more.

The same goes for the other gifts I've been given, like my husband Nick and my dance partner, Josh. Some of my very favorite memories of our times together didn't take place at a dance convention, but during our time together off-set... whether it was adventuring, exploring, praying, talking or just cooking, eating and laughing together.

Today I'm lucky enough to be spending it with them once again. I really am thankful for them, and I really am, as the quote says, investing in them. It does pay off.

This Thanksgiving I hope the same for you. May you spend it with the people you truly enjoy and do the things that make you glow.

My dearest & deepest love,

Katherine

ps - Oh right! I said we had some presents for you. We do.

Here's the first. Expect more soon! 

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