Posts tagged ‘gratitude’
What is Prayer?
According to Richard Rohr,
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we ourselves are a constant act of praise.
- From Radical Grace: Daily Meditations
In other words, we become what we do.
How, then, shall we live?
Wisdom from Willie Nelson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
- Willie Nelson
It’s that time of year when we count the blessings of autumn
Thanksgiving and Praise
Monday’s Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 100:1-5.
The Lord made us; we belong to God.
Sing joyfully to God, all you lands;
serve God with gladness:
come before God with joyful singing.The Lord made us; we belong to God.
Know that the Lord is God;
God made us;
we are God’s people – God’s lovingly tended flock.The Lord made us; we belong to God.
Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving,
and God’s courts with praise;
Give thanks to God; bless God’s name.The Lord made us; we belong to God.
For God is good:
The Lord, whose kindness endures forever,
with faithfulness to all generations.The Lord made us; we belong to God.
The sheep in Rafter 7′s pasture
Giving Thanks with the Guitar
Me . . . pensively giving thanks with the guitar
Friday’s Responsorial Psalm 33 charges us to give thanks musically.
Give thanks to God on the harp;
with the ten-stringed lyre chant God’s praises.”
I choose the six-stringed guitar!
Sunflowers Give Thanks!
Is there anything that can give thanks quite like a sunflower?
Thursday’s Responsorial is Psalm 145. Here is a verse from it:
Let all your works give you thanks, O God,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.”
Merton on Gratitude
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.”
- Thomas Merton
Recognizing God in the wild mushroom!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Gratitude
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
More on Gratitude
Would that my heart opened as bright and as clear as this wild flower.
Gratitude is the sweet fragrance of an opening heart.
-Aine Belton
(Quote found on gratefulness.org)
Beauty is God’s Handwriting
I hope I never tire of being reminded at the closeness of God’s presence to us. And I hope that some good day, I will not need to be reminded, but find that presence in all its infinite manifestations. Today’s reminder comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
God’s handwriting
