…there is a common core to feeling grateful: we recognize a circumstance, event, or
situation (even if it is a trial) as a
gift, we have received some unexpected benefit, we respond with words and
actions, and we become our best selves in the process. Gifts are not only pleasurable, but the right
give at the right time can change us.
Diana Butler
Bass Gratitude, HarperOne, 2018, p. 9
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are
the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is
the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth:
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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Black, turning red to orange to blue,
the sun creeping slipping into the sky
kissing the mountain
pink snow
and gratitude
My brain woke ungrateful
no visions of sugarplums
just shadow and fire
a world burning
a leader, fearful, hateful
retributory and small
but God’s grandeur
flaming forth
a gift
there are so many gifts
if you look for them
the people who gather each Sunday morning
who with their hunger for sacred
their openness and faith
make my soul blossom
the cat, insistent bumping
the cold nose of my big-hearted dog child
the whinny of the geriatric mares
GodWithUs
ever-present saying do not fear
when my heart is desperate
when I am swimming in anxiety
the gift comes
a heart set free
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