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Daily Question, June 26

What new beginnings am I grateful for today?

  • Bill

    “Each day is a fresh page to write on.” The past is dead, true freedom, salvation, liberation, is one of the inner life, free from the past! I’m 26 and to some that may seem very young, but it’s the oldest I’ve ever been ???? so sometimes it’s easy to think ‘what have i done with my life so far? what am i doing? and be filled with dwelling in the past, what could have been what could be different. But i heard someone say something that really hit me in a fresh way the other day,...

    “Each day is a fresh page to write on.” The past is dead, true freedom, salvation, liberation, is one of the inner life, free from the past! I’m 26 and to some that may seem very young, but it’s the oldest I’ve ever been ???? so sometimes it’s easy to think ‘what have i done with my life so far? what am i doing? and be filled with dwelling in the past, what could have been what could be different. But i heard someone say something that really hit me in a fresh way the other day, along the lines of – “the past is gone, start living today the way you want to. You are free to create it. You are a creator, new and alive each day.” The past is exactly that, it passed. Bondage is to bind yourself (or another) to the past, something that is dead, it is no longer. This is even settling in me as i write this. Life is always doing something new. There is the age old earth with all of it’s history, but at the same time it’s always being reborn, each year, each season, each day, each sunrise, is fresh as it’s always been, it’s new each time around. It’s amazing that we are given free will and the deepest essence of what is truth, is freedom from the past, it’s completely alive and free. So that is empowering to me, to do something new, uncharted, unexperienced, to go after a passion, to be free from past regrets, or ‘wrong-doings’, i receive forgiveness and accept new life free from that which is gone. I am also entering into a brand new season of life this September, changing jobs completely, changing cities, leaving my home, going after a dream that I have no clue what it’s going to turn out like. I feel nervous, uncertain, unqualified, but at the same time so happy to feel those things and for it to BE TOTALLY OKAY to feel those things – to be put into a circumstance where I have to totally trust on God to direct me each step…stepping out from financial security, the path that was laid out and secure before, that probably would have been a great road to travel down. This is definitely a new beginning even though i feel like the oldest i’ve ever been (cause it’s true!) but it’s also the youngest I’ll ever be – and so will every moment to come from here on out. So I’m grateful for the eternal and inner spiritual new beginnings that are new each day, also in nature, and also this one I am starting on this coming September as I move out to Chicago! We are blessed. I am blessed, may our hearts be always receiving ever new beginnings for our spirits..grace…unending

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  • Marta's Beautiful Journey

    This is a loaded question for me. Today I am grateful to be free of a 9 year job that brought constant self doubt and anxiety. I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to pursue what makes me happy, and to contribute to our community in a positive way, to feel appreciated and to make those I work with feel appreciated. We all have value and purpose. I have no idea what that is or looks like at this moment. Just trying to stay open to where this new journey leads me and rebuild my self es...

    This is a loaded question for me. Today I am grateful to be free of a 9 year job that brought constant self doubt and anxiety. I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to pursue what makes me happy, and to contribute to our community in a positive way, to feel appreciated and to make those I work with feel appreciated. We all have value and purpose. I have no idea what that is or looks like at this moment. Just trying to stay open to where this new journey leads me and rebuild my self esteem, self worth, and self love.

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  • Always Learning

    Each day is a fresh page to write on. I KNOW we have all heard that many times. But for now, I am thinking about how grateful I am when I am reading or listening to a book that gives me insights into who I am and how I “tick.” Each realization is an opportunity to reflect, appreciate, or CHANGE something that will lead me to a better self.

  • Antoinette

    I’m grateful for everyday which is always a new chance for new beginnings.

  • Aine

    Hmmm… A new beginning.
    Right now, it is daylily bloom season on our farm, and they are smiling out at me everywhere. Daylilies have each individual blossom only for one day, though many can be produced on a given plant, so they are a great reminder to stop each day to taste its savor and enjoy its gifts. Checking each morning to see which new one has opened greets each new day with a new gift.

  • KC

    I am grateful for this new day and week, and for the relaxed ease of these early days of summer.

  • Hot Sauce

    I am shifting my state of awareness to be more aware of the beauty and mystery around me. It is for this shift in consciousness that I am grateful.

  • Carol

    If you spend a lot of time looking for the meaning of life, I suggest you live the question: What does it mean to BE ALIVE? Some of us make it to the airport but we fail to get on the plane. Maybe, we are trying to carry to much baggage. We forget to trust life. We forget that the cost of the ticket is willingness. We cling to our unhealthy need to control and fail to lose control to the Spirit of Wholeness, the oneness of mind, body and spirit which constitutes truly “Being Alive moment to m...

    If you spend a lot of time looking for the meaning of life, I suggest you live the question: What does it mean to BE ALIVE? Some of us make it to the airport but we fail to get on the plane. Maybe, we are trying to carry to much baggage. We forget to trust life. We forget that the cost of the ticket is willingness. We cling to our unhealthy need to control and fail to lose control to the Spirit of Wholeness, the oneness of mind, body and spirit which constitutes truly “Being Alive moment to moment.” That makes everything new. Let it BE.

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  • kathleen

    I am grateful for mindfulness. I hope that more mindfulness will lead to more gratefulness and increased attention to what really matters.

  • Anonymous

    I am grateful to be trying to exercise gratitude daily. Living life without gratitude is just not right.

  • BKC

    I am grateful for how practicing Gratitude is giving me peace and calm as I maneuver through my responsibility and joys. This is new for me and makes it easier for me to tackle life.

  • Ed Schulte

    What new beginnings am I grateful for today?

    As it is said, “Your Life is God’s gift to you. What YOU choose to do with your Life is your gift to God.”

    So today’s ( and everyday’s ) “new beginning” is in every choice I make in whatever situation that may arise. I have yet to receive them but I DO promise to my Self that , ……..

    “I will be ready at all time and in all places to serve the Divine Plan.”

  • Lioness

    Natures new beginnings, there was a baby woodpecker feeding on one of our bird feeders, it was beautiful.

  • Ginni

    What a wonderful question to make me ponder what I am grateful for. I have so many today! I am grateful for a new course I am taking about flowers and flower arranging. It’s bringing me a great deal of joy. I am grateful for a new walking partner. I am grateful for two new employees at work. They will bring fresh energy to the job. I am always grateful for the beginning of a new day.

  • Deb

    Another new day!!

  • Anita

    The sun shining through my window illuminating the lush green foliage in my pond. For my husband. For spinach and tomatoes growing in my garden. For my children. For the rains we’ve had this Spring. For the whisper within – I call Faith. For lots of things, but most of all, for eyes that see, legs that walk, ears that hear and a heart that feels. Thank you for this opportunity to recall what I am grateful for. Love to all… Anita

  • Faith52

    Today is a new day to take care of myself and my home. Thinking about this question makes me smile! I’m so grateful to be able to say ‘thank you God for this new day’

  • Michael

    I am grateful for the entire adventure of today June 26, 2017. the beginning of another new week. “Thank God It’s Monday!!!” is a catch phrase from my favorite motivational speaker Eric Thomas. converting another ebook into iBooks and other exciting “serving others” activities.

  • Gina

    beginners mind is an amazing thing and I hope to venture into the beginning of a new day, week and each new beginning……no matter how small…

    • Ursula

      Dear Gina,
      this is for you as I think I read that a friend of yours was diagnosed with a brain tumor ...
      Today I received a video saying that a German female researcher found that methadone, a drug substitute, killed cancer cells in lab when given together with chemotherapy. They also interviewed a patient with a serious brain tumor who had been diagnosed some years ago and was supposed to die after only a year, but is now cancer free thanks to methadone given in addition to chemotherapy. The...

      Dear Gina,
      this is for you as I think I read that a friend of yours was diagnosed with a brain tumor …
      Today I received a video saying that a German female researcher found that methadone, a drug substitute, killed cancer cells in lab when given together with chemotherapy. They also interviewed a patient with a serious brain tumor who had been diagnosed some years ago and was supposed to die after only a year, but is now cancer free thanks to methadone given in addition to chemotherapy. They also interviewed a palliative doctor whose patients are living longer with it. Methadone was given to his patients as an analgetic.
      Pharma industry is not interested in research it seems as methadone doesn’t cost much.
      I hope your friend can be healed and I’m praying for her! Blessings to you as well, Gina!

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      • Gina

        Thank-you so much Ursula.
        It is incredible what they can do, isn’t it?
        They are operating todayortomorrow and will be sending her home in a few days if all goes, amazing isn’t?
        My friend Marnnie is very determined and plans to bounce right back…..prayers and love are all so powerful!

        • Aine

          That right there is the biggest indicator. We must first believe we CAN heal in order to be able to heal. Many blessings to you and your friend!

          • Gina

            How True!
            Life is amazing……it always brings me back to when I was a teenager and had a life threatening disease…..will and love of life is incredible!
            I am pretty sure it made a difference in my outlook .

  • Christina

    A recent reading in my 12-step program that brought home to me that happiness, joy and peace can be a part of my daily experience – and that God is in that.

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