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	<title>Girl Heroes &#187; gratitude</title>
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		<title>Sandcastles.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.girl-heroes.com/2010/06/02/sandcastles/"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" height="150" src="http://www.girl-heroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sandcastle-150x150.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="sandcastle" /></a>Source Today I woke up feeling down. Most of the time I feel like a girl enjoying the beach.  (The girl in my mind has smaller smoother thighs).  I run, skip, play, and work building sandcastles. Most of the time my life is pleasant and I enjoy the simplicity of my life.  I&#8217;m grateful. Occasionally, [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>Today I woke up feeling down.</p>
<p>Most of the time I feel like a girl enjoying the beach.  (The girl in my mind has smaller smoother thighs).  I run, skip, play, and work building sandcastles. Most of the time my life is pleasant and I enjoy the simplicity of my life.  I&#8217;m grateful. Occasionally, often without warning, the tide starts to come in wrecking my lovely sandcastles.  I panic, complain, question, and get angry.  I try to build a dam to stop the tide.  It doesn&#8217;t work.  I try to outrun the tide but I&#8217;m running in lead filled Uggs across sand.  Today rather than panic, fight, or run, I&#8217;m choosing to wait and trust.  Trusting my sandcastle is built on a rock and it won&#8217;t be washed away.</p>
<p>The tide will recede.  There will still be remnants and I will build again.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.girl-heroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/smashedsandcastle.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2276" title="smashedsandcastle" src="http://www.girl-heroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/smashedsandcastle-229x300.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="300" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillwatson/2451088321/" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
<p>I will laugh again.  I will play again.  I will see beauty again.</p>
<p>I will be stronger for it.</p>
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<p>Hugs and High Fives,<br />
Jenn</p>
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