So much wisdom, beauty, love, inspiration, and gratitude in a single post! Bravo, Sharon! May you long continue to be a beacon of hope, light and warmth for all those who stumble in frigid darkness, desperately lonely and afraid.
If this World were my classroom
I would greet each day as a lesson
I would treat each person as a teacher
And accept each moment as an opportunity to learn.
If this World were my classroom
I would sit very, very still
And pay close attention
So as not to miss a single thing.
I would peer excitedly
Into the pages of every new dawn
Like a newly opened
Gift. 
With reinvigorated anticipation
I would learn
That radiant acquiescence
Is the secret to contentment.
If this World were my classroom
I would try not to run ahead in impatience
Neither be held back by my own unbelief
For I would see with new eyes.
If this World were my classroom
I would learn to recognise
The false masters
Of Vain Imaginings and Idle Fancies. 
When I gaze at the scattering stars above
The wonder that grips my soul
Would…
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Russ Towne's A Grateful Man 