The Beautiful San Francisco Bay

Today is the last day of the Church Year, since tomorrow is the First Sunday of Advent. Our Psalm today is Psalm 95, and we read:

For the Lord is a great God,
 and a great ruler above all gods;
In God’s hands are the depths of the earth,
   and the tops of the mountains.
The sea belongs to God, the Creator
   and the dry land, which God’s hands have formed.

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
Gratefully gazing down on the Golden Gate Bridge from my heavenly perch in the sky

Whose Are We?

Today we hear from Psalm 100.

Know that the Lord is God;   God made us, we belong to God;
God’s people and tended flock.

In this case we see a herd, not a flock. But the concept is the same!
Whose are you?

 

Where Is Your Quest Taking You?

Where is your quest taking you?

 

Each minute of life
should be a divine quest.

– Paramahansa Yogananda

 

All Creation Rejoices!

Today’s Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 96.

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them!
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult.

Let the sea and what fills it (and what surrounds it) resound.

Rejoicing in Creation

Today’s Responsorial Psalm is from Psalm 24.

The Lord’s are the earth and its fullnes;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For God founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.

That pretty much covers everything!

 

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

Grace and Gratitude

“Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.”

– Karl Barth

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