Several years ago, my friend Heather sent me a care package. In it was a little gratitude journal called 101 Joys Make a Rainbow. The idea was that every day you’d record something you were grateful for and then fold the page. When you were done the booklet, you’d have an entire rainbow of “joys.”

I went to a wedding recently. My first one in years. And I wouldn’t lie if I didn’t say I tried to look beautiful for that wedding. You see, I’ve put on a few pounds over the past few years.