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What a lovely story with which to start my day – thank you Guri. I find it hard sometimes to get past my anger and a sense of injustice to look at the situation from the “perpetrator’s” perspective. But I have learned that doing just that can so often be an opportunity to stop and take stock of all my blessings, and find my way to compassion. And in the end? I realize the anger and fear do not benefit me, I am simply a happier person left with blessings and compass...
What a lovely story with which to start my day – thank you Guri. I find it hard sometimes to get past my anger and a sense of injustice to look at the situation from the “perpetrator’s” perspective. But I have learned that doing just that can so often be an opportunity to stop and take stock of all my blessings, and find my way to compassion. And in the end? I realize the anger and fear do not benefit me, I am simply a happier person left with blessings and compassion…
Thank you ALL for being part of this extraordinary group of wholehearted pilgrims. As our eCourse comes to a close we hope you will stay connected. Please visit this page to learn more: http://www.demo.gratefulness.org/resource/dw-ecourse-staying-connected/ Gratefully, Margaret, on behalf of your Gratefulness team
Thank you ALL for being part of this extraordinary group of wholehearted pilgrims. As our eCourse comes to a close we hope you will stay connected. Please visit this page to learn more: http://www.demo.gratefulness.org/resource/dw-ecourse-staying-connected/
Gratefully, Margaret, on behalf of your Gratefulness team
Thank you Lang, for immersing us today in your love of nature and those beautiful sounds of nature, especially inspiring on this dark and rainy morning. Even today, I vow to open my ears and eyes when I go outside and I know I will find wonders…
Thank you, Beverly, for sharing your wonderful, informative blog. It seems like Kwanzaa is so much about making the community better and stronger, and by working towards this collective good, one comes to know oneself, too.
Thank you so much, Fabiana, for this beautiful, thought-provoking piece! Teaching our children to open their eyes to the suffering AND the blessings in this world…and then to try and serve both in some way…is a huge and important task. And very soon the child becomes the teacher as Marina is.
Br. David wrote in today with these reflections about this blog:
Thank you so much, Kristi, for your blog post. I do hope the three children will become multipliers of your practice. There must be thousands of people out there who share your and Lynne’s practice. I, too have been picking up trash for a long time from northern Scotland to southern New Zealand. Some years ago i figured that the trash i collected ever year was several times my body weight.<...
Thank you so much, Kristi, for your blog post. I do hope the three children will become multipliers of your practice. There must be thousands of people out there who share your and Lynne’s practice. I, too have been picking up trash for a long time from northern Scotland to southern New Zealand. Some years ago i figured that the trash i collected ever year was several times my body weight. By now, because i’m walking less, it’s not that much. We are in this together.
Your Brother David
Thank you, Lynn, for this touching story that is so compelling!
I love that Rumi line, Ed!
~Margaret
Dear Ed,
Thank you for your very interesting take on the missing “k” – and for drawing that typo to our attention. I have corrected it, but now I’ll always think of Br. David’s essay AND Rumi’s “Only Breath” when I step on an Oriental carpet!
Dear Carol,
I found this in Br. David’s article, Fullness and Emptiness about hope:
Hope There is a close connection between hope and hopes, but we must not confuse the two. We set our hopes on something we can imagine. But hope is open for the unimaginable. The opposite of hopes is hopelessness. The opposite of hope is despair. But even in a hopeless situation hope remains open to surprise. Surprise links hope with gratefulness. To the grateful heart every g...
Hope There is a close connection between hope and hopes, but we must not confuse the two. We set our hopes on something we can imagine. But hope is open for the unimaginable. The opposite of hopes is hopelessness. The opposite of hope is despair. But even in a hopeless situation hope remains open to surprise. Surprise links hope with gratefulness. To the grateful heart every gift is surprising. Hope is openness for surprise.
This might give another insight to what he meant in that quote…
That sounds like a good Word for the Day quote, Deb – thanks for that and for your wise words…
Dear Mary Pat, I am so moved by what you write, and feel deeply for your loss. Robin Botie writes about her experiences of living with the loss of her daughter on our site, and I would like to share it with you and others who grieve for their beloved children: http://www.demo.gratefulness.org/grateful_living/mother-swallowed-daughter/…
This just gave me goosebumps, Trish! It’s amazing what the smallest gesture of connection can mean to someone.
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