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Friday, May 30, 2014

Prayer


If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “thank you”  that will be enough.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Creating our Own Future


We can create our own future through the amazing power of gratitude.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Thank You


“Thank you” are two of the most powerful words in any language, but they may very well be the most under-used.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Thanksgiving


The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts; no Americans have been more impoverished than they, who, nevertheless, set aside a day of THANKSGIVING.

 

Monday, May 26, 2014

Key to a Happy Life


Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful,         then no matter how much we have, we will not be happy, because we will always want to have          something else or something more.

 

Friday, May 23, 2014


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

 

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Loved Ones


 
I am thankful for the piles of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby.
 

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

For Granted or Gratitude


When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them                 with gratitude.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Home


I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning, and gutters that need         fixing because it means I have a HOME.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Focus on the Good


If you concentrate on what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Counting Blessings

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Affects of Gratitude


Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home and a stranger into a friend.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Heart


Gratitude is always wholehearted—our whole person is engaged in it—the heart is the symbol of the whole person.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Joy

Joy is the outward sign and true expression of gratitude.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Celebrating the Bond


Gift-giving is a celebration of the bond between the giver and the receiver—that bond is                 gratitude.

Friday, May 9, 2014

Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart


To be always open for surprise, for gratitude, we need to awaken the child in us so that we may        see with the eyes of the heart.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Circle of Gratitude


The circle of gratitude is not complete until the giver of the gift becomes the receiver—a                 receiver of gratitude.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Whole-Hearted Gesture

Gratitude is a gesture of the whole heart.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Going Beyond Myself


Gratitude always goes beyond myself for what makes something a gift is precisely that it is given—the receiver depends on the giver.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Gifts


Gratitude enables me to be amazed at the gifts I take for granted—a flower as an expression               of surprise, the sky as a marvelous piece of art.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Moments of Surprise



Feast of St Athanasius, bishop/doctor of Church

Moments of surprise—a rainbow, a sunset, a thunderstorm—teach us that everything is a gift, a gift to be grateful for.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Gratitude


May – GRATITUDE

We commit ourselves to live a life of gratitude--awakening daily to the wonder of God’s presence everywhere.

Text:  Live this life and do whatever is done in a spirit of thanks, praise and blessing.   Prologue   

 Thursday, May 1  Feast of St Joseph the Worker

  Surprise is the beginning of gratitude; only if we are aware of the world around us can gratitude
  become our basic attitude toward life.