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Daily Question, April 26

Gratefulness is humbling. What does that mean to you?

  • KC

    Practicing gratefulness, I slowly find my place and path as a unique and vital spec in a vast universe. Experiencing interconnectedness is humbling, exciting and terrifying. Learning to give, receive, trust and surrender to love is worthy and humbling, breath by breath, day by day…

  • Christina

    Gratefulness reminds me how richly blessed I am–and have always been. It connects me with those blessings and a reverence for life.

  • Deb Waites

    I have cultivated a sense of gratefulness for many years and one of the things I noticed is that things can always be worse. So, I was humbled recognizing the good of my situation. But now, my heart aches for the many who have it so bad and cannot even see anything to be thankful for.

  • Anna

    I believe that humility is a flow which goes from top the to bottom and not in the opposite direction.
    During my life I learnt to be aware and grateful for this awareness: I am humble if I forgive who hurt me, either on purpose or unconsciously.
    I am smart and I am content of that: I am humble if I don’t use my intelligence to show an intellectual superemacy.
    If I got some kind of power, I am grateful for this: I can’t but be honest and don’t direct my power to any form of oppression.
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    I believe that humility is a flow which goes from top the to bottom and not in the opposite direction.
    During my life I learnt to be aware and grateful for this awareness: I am humble if I forgive who hurt me, either on purpose or unconsciously.
    I am smart and I am content of that: I am humble if I don’t use my intelligence to show an intellectual superemacy.
    If I got some kind of power, I am grateful for this: I can’t but be honest and don’t direct my power to any form of oppression.
    If I am a parent I thank my God for that and I have to use my authority with tenderness, because my sons deserve that I explain my requests.

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  • Michael

    Overwhelmed and silenced by the everyday, known only in this moment.

  • Ed Schulte

    Like this high level BE-ing so eloquently puts it……humbling…. is the same emanation/frequency as “Try a little tenderness”

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/world/pope-ted-talk/index.html

  • Ineunt

    It means that I need to consistently appreciate all that those around me do to improve the lives of children and each other.

  • Anonymous

    As I reflect on this statement , I am sitting in my sofa my husband and children out of the country yet there some where safe. I am grateful for a family and the feeling of valuing what I have been given makes my head clearer and I sense a soft hand of nurturing of life……..

  • Susan

    I am grateful that an arrogant Pastor is teaching me to be humble. I am glad I am not in his position - a pastor of a large, mega church but instead in a position where I am part of the cleaning crew for here is where I am learning to be humble. I am grateful for my humble position and that I can turn to God and know that God cares about all of us. And God listens to each of us as I can have a direct and personal relationship with God and listen to God without intervention nor being influenced b...

    I am grateful that an arrogant Pastor is teaching me to be humble. I am glad I am not in his position – a pastor of a large, mega church but instead in a position where I am part of the cleaning crew for here is where I am learning to be humble. I am grateful for my humble position and that I can turn to God and know that God cares about all of us. And God listens to each of us as I can have a direct and personal relationship with God and listen to God without intervention nor being influenced by anyone.

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    • KC

      Beautiful Jill. Thank you! ????

    • Ed Schulte

      This is a very, very, good post! This echoes the Pope’s message at the 2017 Vancouver TED talk beautifully !!! Thank You for your great timing here! ( or should I say God Whisper?)

      http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/world/pope-ted-talk/index.html

  • sparrow

    It reminds me
    of how Great everything is . . .
    I am in awe and wonder . . .
    there is so much more than me
    and yet,
    I am a part of it.

  • kathleen

    To feel genuinely humble is a wonderful feeling of being in sync with the universe as it is. It is an inner recognition of divinity. We are all part of a mysterious body of people and we can only be in awe of life.

  • Gina

    it means I am one small little part of the cosmic plan, no better , no worse than any living/ breathing entity on Earth, everything is interdependent and this is indeed humbling

  • Michael

    gratefulness is not boastful nor loud. it’s a recognition that moments, feelings, things we attain, etc are to be celebrated…but celebrated in a spirit of thankfulness along w the joy.

  • Palm

    I recently read an article in which anger was referred to as entitlement, we get angry because things should be the way we’d want them to be. In this question I now find the opposite: “gratefulness is humbling” because nothing is for granted and I cannot expect but only appreciate what is freely given to me

  • Antoinette

    Rumi helps me remember what gratefulness means to me.
    “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
    Rumi
    Gratefulness means going back home to me. It’s the connection to everything and that all things are gifts and treasures.
    When I’m grateful I feel a deep sense of contentment and connection to love.

  • Kevin

    Maintaining a sense of gratefulness throughout the day helps to remind me that everything I have, see, feel and consume are actually gifts of life and living that I receive. I do not own them. And knowing this, no matter how much I may sometimes think otherwise, reminds me not to forget my true station and place on the planet.
    – Kevin

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