Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

I'm Thankful for You

>> Thursday, November 27, 2008


Thanksgiving is the appointed time
for focusing on the good in our lives.
In each of our days,
we can find small blessings,
but too often we overlook them,
choosing instead to spend our time
paying attention to problems.
We give our energy
to those who cause us trouble
instead of those who bring peace.
Starting now,
let’s be on the lookout
for the bits of pleasure in each hour,
and appreciate the people who
bring love and light to everyone
who is blessed to know them.
You are one of those people.
On Thanksgiving,
I’m thankful for you.
Happy Thanksgiving!

By Joanna Fuchs

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Cheer up Charlie, it's Thanksgiving!

>> Wednesday, November 26, 2008


How about a good old fashioned Thanksgiving meal of poached shoe leather? (And make sure you ladle on plenty of those good drippings!) Watch this scene with Charlie Chaplin, from The Gold Rush, where he cooks his shoe and shares it with a friend for Thanksgiving dinner. Classic Chaplin.

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The World loves Obama

>> Sunday, November 2, 2008


Just yesterday I was reading that the entire world is watching the U.S. presidential elections with great anticipation and that when Barack Obama wins the U.S. Presidency, the people of all nations will embrace him as the World's President. What an awesome and incredible honor and responsibility that will be. I believe this behooves us to lift this man up in prayer, to pray protection, guidance, compassion, wisdom, and strength upon him and upon his entire family.

The following is an African song in honor of Obama simply entitled, The Obama Song, expressing the gratitude and hopes of the world for this incredible man, the man destiny has called to pave the way for peace and healing for a broken world.

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I am grateful

>> Thursday, November 22, 2007


When your feelings of gratitude are conditional upon temporary circumstances like your stuff, your job, and your relationships, your base identity doesn’t change. But when you root your gratitude in something permanent, it becomes a permanent part of you. Instead of saying, “I am grateful for…” you just say, “I am grateful.”

--Steve Pavlina

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The Grammar of Gratitude

>> Wednesday, November 21, 2007


The spiritual practice of gratitude has been called a state of mind and a way of life. But we prefer to think of it as a grammar — an underlying structure that helps us construct and make sense out of our lives. The rules of this grammar cover all our activities. Its syntax reveals a system of relationships linking us to the divine and to every other part of the creation.

To learn the grammar of gratitude, practice saying "thank you" for happy and challenging experiences, for people, animals, things, art, memories, dreams. Count your blessings, and praise God. Utter blessings, and express your appreciation to everything and everyone you encounter. By blessing, we are blessed.

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Count Your Blessings

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You shall go out with joy!

>> Saturday, November 17, 2007


For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. — Isaiah 55:12

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The Winds of Change


The past two-and-a-half weeks have seen Steph and me beset with a whirlwind that has brought with it a season of change and transition in our lives, the likes that I've not seen in the nearly eight years since I was divorced. That's not to say that the past eight years have been a piece of cake, by any means, for every year, it seems, has been beset with its triumphs and challenges. It has been an interesting life. However, these past couple of weeks have brought a strange wind, that portends destruction, but rather, in its wake, is leaving the chance for a new start, a new life, and new opportunities.

I had a dream last week that I was sitting on a front porch of a house with my boss from the real estate office where I work. If you know anything about my boss, Grace, you will know that practically nothing alarms her. She's solid as a rock, and seemingly unaffected by anything. As we were sitting together sipping some tea, I looked to my right and about a mile down the road I saw a great, terrible storm cloud. It was black and churning and ominous, and it was coming right towards us. Alarmed, I turned to Grace and exclaimed, "Do you see that? It's coming right towards us!" In typical Grace fashion, she replied, "Awwwh...don't worry about it. We're in Oklahoma. We see stuff like that all the time." I turned towards it again, and it was even closer, and then suddenly a huge tornado fell out of the black cloud, and began consuming everything in its path. Then, suddenly, as it advanced towards us, it broke up into a bunch of smaller tornadoes, that kept coming down the road. What was interesting, however, was that although the tornadoes were consuming everything in their path, what they left behind in the wake was not destruction, but beauty! The sun was shinning, there were lush, green trees, fields full of green grass and flowers, birds singing--a virtual paradise. As the storm came closer and closer and eventually passed us, we were caught up in the wake, but we were never touched nor harmed, but left in peace, surrounded by all of this new beauty.

For a little less than a year, now, Steph and I have been intensely visualizing a dream that we have held since we have been together, and that Steph has had since 1994--that of moving to and living in Vienna. Around Thanksgiving last year, we were introduced to The Secret , and through the things that were revealed to us in that film, we learned about how living a life of joy, expectancy, and gratitude would open us up to a fuller and more abundant life through the Law of Attraction. Since then, we have been putting what we learned into practice, and now, a year later, we are seeing the beginnings of the harvest of what we have created.

I know that my blog entries have seemed rather cryptic over the last couple of weeks, and indeed they have been. As much as I would love to, I am not yet free to indulge myself in shouting from the mountain tops, just yet. That time is soon to arrive however. Let's just put it this way--there is a will, we have a lawyer, and our dreams of Vienna will soon be a reality.

And I am so very grateful...

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Recognizing the good

>> Tuesday, November 13, 2007


The Hebrew term for gratitude is hikarat hatov, which means, literally, "recognizing the good." Practicing gratitude means recognizing the good that is already yours.

Dr. Alan Morinis

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The peace that passes all understanding

>> Sunday, November 11, 2007


There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

~ Ralph H. Blum ~

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Be happy!

I hadn't seen this video in a long time, and I'd forgotten how much I liked it when it first came out. And now, it's even more meaningful to me than it ever was.

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Oh! What a beautiful mornin'

>> Saturday, November 10, 2007

Being from Oklahoma, I always have to laugh when I see the scenery in this film. It wasn't shot in Oklahoma, but rather in New Mexico, because the Hollywood producers said that Oklahoma didn't "look like Oklahoma". Tell me now, how New Mexico can look more like Oklahoma, than Oklahoma does?



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The Gratitude Dance

>> Friday, November 9, 2007

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Thoughts become things

>> Thursday, November 8, 2007


Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.


Paul's letter to the Church at Philipi, chapter 4, verse 8

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Sing a song of thanksgiving

>> Wednesday, November 7, 2007





Laudate Dominum omnes gentes,
Praise the Lord, all ye nations(peoples),
laudate eum omnes populi.
praise him, all ye peoples.
Quoniam confirmata est
For his loving kindness (mercy)
super nos misericordia ejus,
has been bestowed upon us,
et veritas Domini manet
and the truth of the Lord endures
in aeternum.
for eternity.

Gloria patri et filio
Glory to the Father, Son,
et spiritui sancto,
and to the Holy Spirit;
sicut erat in principio
as it was in the beginning,
et nunc et semper
is now, and ever shall be,
et in saecula saeculorum.
world without end.
Amen.

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A gratitude-heart





A gratitude-heart
Is to discover on earth
A Heaven-delivered rose.

Sri Chinmoy





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Gratitude: the evidence of a heart made whole

>> Tuesday, November 6, 2007


When gratitude is this well established, it is a sign of a heart that has been made right and whole. Gratitude can't coexist with arrogance, resentment, and selfishness.

Dr. Alan Morinis



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A will for the good


To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

Albert Schweitzer

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City of my dreams

>> Sunday, November 4, 2007

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The Sound of Gratitude

>> Saturday, November 3, 2007

For me, gratitude is expressed in the music of Edward Elgar, in Nimrod, from the "Enigma Variations". This particular performance is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with the Chicago Symphony.

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