I know we have a lot of threads already on gratitude but I want to share this website here as it is lovely especially this video
I often light candles here
light a candle
there is so much on the website and it is a very gentle ,healing place to visit
A few years ago I used to post on here a lot and then over time forgot about it .I have started again today and it is heartwarming reading about all the kind things people are doing around the world .
It is also a reminder to be concious of when and where I can help anyone .
In response to flowergirl’s post:
great post! Thanks for that great list(:
and of course great thread(:
BE YOU
GRATITUDE is one the strongest virtues I strive to develop. Glad you raised it as thread. I cherish it.
GOD IS GOOD ALONE
I have just recieved this video and feel so grateful that I can give even a small amount each month and sign petitions to help children all over the world
In response to LOASecret’s post:
Thank you LOA! …glad I included this in my morning.
BE YOU
beautiful video ,thank you so much LOASecret
In response to LOASecret’s post:
this is one of the most beautiful and true videos I have ever seen. There is so much to be grateful for and I forget at times that there is an array of colors and beauty in abundance. That you so much LOASecret’s.
Blessings,
Godschild
In response to LOASecret’s post:
I have just watched this beautiful video again ,thank you .
Today I’m starting a gratitude journal .Gratitude is one of the 6 priciples in a very special book
Simple Abundance
and although I have owned this book for years and read it so much it is falling apart I have not yet made all the things suggested ,so today is the day for making a gratitude journal and I’m doing it .
gratitude
love flowergirl
FG this is a wonderful thread. Today I was thinking how much I have to be grateful for! A wonderful son, a home, a bed, clothing, food, friends, family. And most of all a second birth. I almost died in 2001 with a brain aneurysm and am still here! Yeah!!! We live in a wonderful country even though there is a lot going on in the government I am glad I live here. Being able to see, hear, smell, taste, feel and mostly think!
In response to Godschild’s post:
Godschild….that kind of gratitude is wisdom on a platter. Thank you for always expressing the valuable areas that can be taken for granted. Thanks for your consistent powerful message. And thank you community for sharing all that you do.
Today…right now is so powerful…It’s meaning is in our hands…each of us.
Blessings to you all.
Love, Selfcare
BE YOU
Isn’t is neat how a simple word can put you into the mood to reach out in some way. I’m glad someone brought this thread to the top ‘cause it spurred me to seek out poetry about gratitude and thankfulness. I found a lot.
Letter to a Friend
Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Verona 1435 – Venice 1525)
I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, but there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take.
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven!
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace!
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see – and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Welcome it, grasp it, touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty – beneath its covering – that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage, then, to claim it, that is all. But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
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Praise Wet Snow
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Praise wet snow
falling early.
Praise the shadow
my neighbor’s chimney casts on the tile roof
even this gray October day that should, they say,
have been golden.
Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney’s shadow.
Praise
god or the gods, the unknown,
that which imagined us, which stays
our hand,
our murderous hand,
and gives us
still,
in the shadow of death,
our daily life,
and the dream still
of goodwill, of peace on earth.
Praise
flow and change, night and
the pulse of day.
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How To Be A Poet
Wendell Berry (born 1934)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill— more of each
than you have— inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your work,
doubt their judgment.
Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places.
Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.
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Starfish
Eleanor Lerman
This is what life does. It lets you walk up to
the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a
stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have
your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman
down beside you at the counter who say, Last night,
the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder,
is this a message, finally, or just another day?
Life lets you take the dog for a walk down to the
pond, where whole generations of biological
processes are boiling beneath the mud. Reeds
speak to you of the natural world: they whisper,
they sing. And herons pass by. Are you old
enough to appreciate the moment? Too old?
There is movement beneath the water, but it
may be nothing. There may be nothing going on.
And then life suggests that you remember the
years you ran around, the years you developed
a shocking lifestyle, advocated careless abandon,
owned a chilly heart. Upon reflection, you are
genuinely surprised to find how quiet you have
become. And then life lets you go home to think
about all this. Which you do, for quite a long time.
Later, you wake up beside your old love, the one
who never had any conditions, the one who waited
you out. This is life’s way of letting you know that
you are lucky. (It won’t give you smart or brave,
so you’ll have to settle for lucky.) Because you
were born at a good time. Because you were able
to listen when people spoke to you. Because you
stopped when you should have and started again.
So life lets you have a sandwich, and pie for your
late night dessert. (Pie for the dog, as well.) And
then life sends you back to bed, to dreamland,
while outside, the starfish drift through the channel,
with smiles on their starry faces as they head
out to deep water, to the far and boundless sea.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien
I’m Alright
Life Less Ordinary
I THINK GRATITUDE IS A GOOD EMOTION OR MINDSET,ALTHOUGH I TEND TO NOT ALWAYS BE IN THAT MINDSET,BUT LIFE IS PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION,TO BORROW A QUOTE FROM SOMEWHERE
enter the heart , you could win a prize
truly enjoyed the beautiful variation of posts on this thread
BE YOU
I am grateful for the day ahead and claiming it as beautiful before it begins.
I am grateful to feel the energy of gratitude and the joy that is a byproduct.
BE YOU
I am grateful for peace in my heart and the love in each day.
BE YOU
I am grateful how I incorporate a sense of play in my spirit in most all I do.
BE YOU
I am grateful for my morning.
I enjoyed from the heart.
I was peaceful from the heart.
I genuinely laughed and smiled ... with everything
I enjoyed others.
I enjoyed myself
love earlier. love now. love other things I'll be doing.
I can look forward to work with a joy & kind feeling growing for the many interactions ahead
BE YOU
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I am grateful for all that I feel on these days off I've had
I am grateful for all I completed, and all I began.
I am grateful to start this fine day with joy, positive energy & fun.
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I am grateful to know I can bring this refreshed self back to work
I am grateful to know I will continue on the good roll I'm on
I am grateful to start everyday as a fine day with joy, positive energy & fun.
BE YOU
I am grateful for gratitude threads 🧵
BE YOU
I am grateful I AM more love for myself .
With more love for me I can live in a world that mixes messages for a world that needs consistent messages of love.
My purpose is to override that with the power of Prayer .
I don’t have all the answers though thru prayer I AM informed . Love is the answer .
BE YOU
