Good morning everybody! Outside, it is again freezing cold, So I will prepare warm breakfast today. I feel grateful and humble for being able to simply take out some compote from the deep freezer, prepared from collected plums and raspberries last autumn, and mix it with apples in a delicious muesli flavored with cinnamon, and some soy yogurt. Grateful as well for lentils and flakes for the birds to feed later on my way to the office.

How I wish that each one on earth could start the day and each day of the week with the nourishment body and soul need to feel well and healthy. It is such a privilege to have access to all these wonders of nature every day even that much so that storage is possible. With a bow to you, I wish you a beautiful day and a week full of warmth and well being.

In chronically challenging situations in close relationships, I need to take responsibility for the good development and outcome of conflicts, in friendships as well as in loving relations. It calls to widen my heart as well as my perspective. To integrate different points of views, to respect the other´s feelings and my own as well while dealing honestly and humbly with what is in the given moment, and responding accordingly.
Such a process, undergone with care, kindness and respect, might hopefully be stabilizing trust, loyalty and faith in the relationship, so that the gift, which lies inside of every relationship and which I feel is peace and love, may rule again.

Although these situations are not at all easy to be transformed, I feel these huge gifts inside of one-to-one relationships are essential to be processed and realized. Based on love and respect, networking with many is joyful and might be opening doors to transforming as well chronically challenging situations into direction of healing and peace, in society as well as on our suffering blue planet.

Although it might sound odd, one of the most important experiences was one where I was shown “the red flag” to stop and review my way of reacting (as I was unable to respond constructively at that time) in special situations. I had a kind of bad habit to attack someone when I felt attacked. Then I gave back instead of being able to respond with kindness and still clearly setting boundaries, if necessary. By now, I feel I am able to do so, after having undergone a very painful process of confronting myself with this and realizing the connected aspects. What this does to others. The downward influence such reacting (instead of constructive responding) takes on all concerned, while responding adequately might lead to a widened perspective in all concerned.

It was an extraordinary painful experience, but non the less I feel it was needed and finally absolutely welcome, after having worked through most aspects of the hinderances located inside myself. One of the aspects was to become more open, which is on its way by now as well. And I need to use my mind much more disciplined, for to change reacting into constructive responding. Meditation on a regular base was the choice to work on the mind´s part.

I am extremely grateful, as I was helped enormously by several people to overcome this, which was not at all to be taken for granted. It could have resulted in complete despair, and to have been helped in such a situation was extraordinary kind and generous. With a deep bow, I gratefully would like to express my thanks to all concerned.

Just to add that the photo of today`s word for the day is amazing. The beauty of the spider net, the sun making it all visible, the spider in the center… amazing! All in one. Thank you so much, dear gratefulness-team for these extraordinary photos you present to us every single day. It is a blessing every single day, which I am looking for every morning and which you offer to us, as if in one breath with the precious Word for the Day, accompanying our day in a profound and deep way. So very grateful!

Good afternoon, dear all of you who share here. Today I am grateful to have a warm heater and warm clothes to wear outside, as unexpected cold arrived here again. When I passed the doves on my way to work, they were sitting on the ground, keeping air under their feathers to stay a bit warmer. I will go soon to feed them, which hopefully will do a bit at least against the cold they have to endure today. Wishing all of you out there to have a warm and cozy home to stay. With kind greetings to all of you.

One of the core values to me is to trust, not to follow fear but trust. To keep a balance in this, while neither overdoing nor denying what is there.

To trust in the good of others is essential for change and to follow the impulses cultivated through this focus will lead to trustworthy results wherever this is realized.
As well for me personally, it is essential to trust in the good of people and situations and not to follow my former fear to be “out”, grateful for those who helped and still help me enormously to let go of possible residues left.

To trust that hinderances are obstacles to learn from and to understand their message, so that in the future, they won´t be needed further.
In my case, the formerly fixed tendency to be afraid to be dismissed brought situations where the fear has been provoked in a kind of a self-fulfilling prophesy and caused much pain in all concerned. To have been able to become aware of it fully gives reason to change and to let go.

I cannot express enough how grateful I am and how humble I feel towards the ones who have offered enormous help on this path. With this inner balance and kind of widened self-awareness, I am hoping that future projects will be able to be realized together with trusted friends.

Gratefully reading your posts here. After the evening meditation, I enjoy being around with some delicious Lassi (an Indian Yogurt drink mixed with mango and some rosewater added, Yummy…). Isn´t it amazing how small the world has become concerning food and drinks? That we may share all the precious goods from all over the world? While enjoying this Lassi, I think of the Indian people and their cultural heritage, and the food I love. I am so happy that they offer this completely natural flavor to savoring and send silent prayers of gratitude to the people who have made this possible, who once created this Lassi for example. Whoever it invented, may he or she, or they, be praised for this gift.

In the morning, I care for my plants, saying hello and thank you, give some water and gratefully enjoy their growing well.
When I ask others “how are you?” I really want to know how the other feels and am open to care with whatever action is required, if needed resp. when this is welcome.
It makes a huge difference when I do what I do with loving kindness, for myself as well as for the other, the plant, the food or the garden, for any field I work on, and approaching everything with loving kindness is something I try to cultivate. Then caring is warmly nourishing and a blessing vice versa.