Posts from the ‘Gratefulness’ Category
Gratitude and Wonder Go Hand in Hand
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- G.K. Chesterton
The wonder of spagnum moss, hanging from a tree
Greeting the Morning, Come what May
There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown.
- Jessica Powers
Let us greet the dawn, come what may!
The Blessings of Gratitude
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
- Jalaluddin Rumi
Great Are the Works of God!
Great are the works of God!
Today’s Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 111.
Alleluia.
I will give thanks to God
with all my heart
in the company and
assembly of the just
Great are the works of God,
exquisite in all their delights.Alleluia.
Let’s Start Something by Being Grateful
For what can I be grateful this day?
Perpetual gratitude toward people around us initiates habits of thankful prayer.
It also starts a chain reaction of giving thanks, till our friends and loved ones and our whole world
become imbued in grateful living.
- Edward Hays
The Last Thankful Post from November
Gratitude is welcome in every season, but as we see out the month of November, here is one more “grateful” quote.
Gratitude is heaven itself.
- William Blake
Gratefully gazing down on the Golden Gate Bridge from my heavenly perch in the sky
How to Find Peace
According to Brother David Steindl-Rast,
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
May our season of Thanksgiving have brought us a grateful and peaceful heart
Weekly Photo Challenge: Thankful
Let us be thankful. It benefits everyone and everything around us. It even benefits ourselves.
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach, from Simple Abundance
Happy Thanksgiving
We don’t need a lot of words when we talk with God. As Meister Eckhart, the Dominican mystic said,
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough
