Daily Question, December 1 What splendor could I appreciate more fully today? 38 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Notify me when someone replies to my comment via e-mail. Patito6 years agoPatitoEl mar y el atardecer, la luna 0 Reply elizabeth ward6 years agoelizabeth wardThe splendour of being alive and able to appreciate everything that comes my way to the utmost possible for me right now. 2 Reply Hot Sauce6 years agoHot SauceI should remember to appreciate the splendor of nature and of others’ beauty, both inner and outer. This is a reminder of the divinity within the creation and within the Divine Spark in each person made in God’s image. 3 Reply Barbara6 years agoBarbaraThis question helped me today to appreciate more fully the splendor of the colors of carrots, beetroot and lambs lettuce at lunch, the sun, the clouds and the sky, the magnificent trees I walked by. Thank you for all these questions every day. They do their work in my life and make it more joyful! 4 Reply Erich6176 years agoErich617I have been thinking a lot lately about the Nietzsche quote, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”I feel like I have plenty of “how”–shelter, sustenance, health–but not much “why,” which is why gratitude can be difficult at times.The other day, I wrote an ode to coffee, and it made me think about the splendor of food. It is–perhaps geniusly–both a how and why. Without food, we perish, but our ...I have been thinking a lot lately about the Nietzsche quote, �... I have been thinking a lot lately about the Nietzsche quote, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”I feel like I have plenty of “how”–shelter, sustenance, health–but not much “why,” which is why gratitude can be difficult at times.The other day, I wrote an ode to coffee, and it made me think about the splendor of food. It is–perhaps geniusly–both a how and why. Without food, we perish, but our …I have been thinking a lot lately about the Nietzsche quote, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”I feel lately like I have plenty of “how”–shelter, sustenance, health–but not much “why,” which is why gratitude can be difficult at times.The other day, I wrote an ode to coffee, and it made me think about the splendor of food. It is–perhaps geniusly–both a how and why. Without food, we perish, but our bodies take pleasure in it. It’s a perfect virtuous circle. We need to do this thing to live, but we also want to do it.So I will appreciate the splendor of all food, the rich flavors, the depth and complexity, and the work that is done so that it is available to me. Read More7 Reply Aine6 years agoAineThis makes me want to do a dark chocolate tasting of multiple kinds, savoring each bite and celebrating nuances. Plus, it is a great excuse to eat good chocolate! 4 Reply Erich6176 years agoErich617Friends of mine went to a dark chocolate tasting event a few years ago and shared the samples with me. It was an experience, but I have to say my fondest memory of eating chocolate is actually eating the fruit of a fresh cocoa pod. Now perhaps I’m bragging a bit. 0 Reply Anna6 years agoAnnaIndeed, Erich, cooking is an art! 3 Reply Sonia6 years agoSoniaBeing alive and healthy 4 Reply John Turner6 years agoJohn TurnerFor me, it’s the splendor of marriage. There was a time when I thought I wasn’t worthy of a lifetime of love from anyone, let alone someone as beautiful and graceful as my wife. So I want to appreciate the union I now have–it’s definitely a miracle to me! 6 Reply Aine6 years agoAine❤️❤️❤️ 2 Reply Doreen Nixon6 years agoDoreen NixonI could appreciate the splendor of each moment…no matter where I am. 2 Reply Cintia6 years agoCintiaI’m suffering with some familiar problems. My heart is broken and sometimes I can’t appreciate the beauty in my life. I think I’ll be not able to stand up. But, when I feel my breathing, when I really pay attention on it, I can appreciate the life, the events… and everything sounds amazing again! And I realize every colors, formats, tastes… “I see trees of green, red roses too skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night…” 5 Reply Sheila6 years agoSheilaBless you, Cintia. May peace be with you. You are never alone. Sending you caring thoughts.???? 1 Reply Aine6 years agoAineTo encourage your heart, Cintia, the more I practice focusing on what is good in my life, the deeper my healing from my own broken heart has been. Healing, especially from a significant pain, simply takes time. May your heart be full and whole sooner than you imagine possible. 2 Reply Sheila6 years agoSheilaThe splendor of simple everyday things I often do without really noticing-the feel of the water running over my hands, the smoothness of my skin as I wash my face, a breath going in and out of my body, so many things I do on ‘automatic pilot’. I will try to appreciate all that splendor today! Peace and blessings to all.????❤ 4 Reply Michael6 years agoMichaelEach moment. Really. Thanks for asking. 4 Reply Aine6 years agoAineToday we will be up in a town on the shores of Lake Erie for part of the day. We often take our lunch in a little park overlooking the water, and splendor, small or great depending on the weather, often awaits. I especially love the days when the light slants across the water making diamonds of every tiny ripple. Breathtaking. 6 Reply Palm6 years agoPalmThis morning my daughter woke up and said “it’s dawn!” So we looked at the sky from bed, pink then yellow clouds that cleared up finally showing the blue sky, birds flying by 6 Reply Anna6 years agoAnnaWonderful, Palm! 2 Reply Palm6 years agoPalmThank you, Anna! I love these moments, I think you will agree with me ???? In the afternoon we had good rain and a rainbow! I was wondering if this question was the one that brought so much splendour ????, I could also picture your mountains (I miss the mountain) and all other wonderful things shared here, a splendid day! Wishing you (us) easy working days until holidays arrive! 2 Reply freehugs6 years agofreehugsI could appreciate more the splendor of nature, or the splendor of life itself. At least in our solar system, life is limited to earth. We are formed of stardust, and are unlikely beings. The fact that we exist – even though our lives are so very fleeting – is a wonderful thing. Appreciating my own existence, appreciating the things that sustain me and the beauty of it all…perhaps those things are something I could appreciate more fully, today. 6 Reply Michael6 years agoMichaelthe splendor of the day. I’m blessed w 24 hours to create. I’m grateful for this day I woke up to and I will appreciate if fully by going at it with full intention and mindfulness and actions. 3 Reply Ed Schulte6 years agoEd SchulteWhat splendor could I appreciate more fully today? The 'Word of the day' points to the key "life-light-splender-giver" I intend to tune my awareness towards always, every day. That word is "Grace" - in all its "mysteries". And by "tuning in" to grace I mean ...be aware AND keep it flowing. "I do not at all understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are but doesn’t leave us where it found us." ANNE LAMOTT The ]Word of the Day' also contains "appreciate" a word or... What splendor could I appreciate more fully today? The ‘Word of the day’ points to the key “life-light-splender-giver” I intend to tune my awareness towards always, every day. That word is “Grace” – in all its “mysteries”. And by “tuning in” to grace I mean …be aware AND keep it flowing. “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are but doesn’t leave us where it found us.” ANNE LAMOTT The ]Word of the Day’ also contains “appreciate” a word originating from old Greek root word “Appa” …hands/wings….they maintained that “where you put your hands is who your are”. And I lke to put my “appa” on the words of Gatefullness.org’s honorary founder at least once a week. and honour his works. He includes quotes of ‘likeminded’ authors which point to keep “flow” or, as in the poem below says it …..”Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; ” Quoting from “Deeper then Words – Living the Apostle’s Creed” “The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins is rich in imagery and tight in structure. This demands a certain effort from readers. But I trust that you will want to reread in its entirety the sonnet I have quoted so extensively, and that you will find your effort rewarded. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is¬— Christ-for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces. What image in this poem speaks to you personally? How would you express the gist of the poet’s message in your own words? What does “justicing” imply in your own daily life? How does the perspective of this section compare with other perspectives on Jesus Christ with which you are familiar? END Quote My reply to Br David’s question is …”justicing” is Living in the mystery of Absolute Beingness’s Divine Grace. Read More3 Reply Ose6 years agoOseDear Ed, such a timely post of yours! Someone of the gratefulness-community once posted a link to a youTube presentation. It was of help for me, especially as poetry is much more difficult to be understood in a foreign language. May be this is of help for some others here as well? https://www dot youtube.com/watch?v=FlPOHGvhekQ 1 Reply Ed Schulte6 years agoEd SchulteDear Ose ( spell checker here prefers to call you "One" :-) ) I am grateful for your sharing ...I hadn't seen/heard the particular and VERY ENERGETIC rendition ...interesting that when young persons read ."When Kingfishers catch Fire" ...they put lots of Enthusiasm into it....middle agers more analytical ....old...more mellow-ness. I first became more interested in Br David' works ( I come from a Roman Catholic background so have an allergy to most Catholic authors :-) ) for what he shared... Dear Ose ( spell checker here prefers to call you “One” 🙂 ) I am grateful for your sharing …I hadn’t seen/heard the particular and VERY ENERGETIC rendition …interesting that when young persons read .”When Kingfishers catch Fire” …they put lots of Enthusiasm into it….middle agers more analytical ….old…more mellow-ness. I first became more interested in Br David’ works ( I come from a Roman Catholic background so have an allergy to most Catholic authors 🙂 ) for what he shared in his take on this Hopkins poem and how much he is inline with what I consider the Essene knowing/treatment of “Self” and “Christhood” . But I will leave it up to reader to read the Br David version ….here is the response from the first two line ….as I hear Hopkins First Line “As kingfishers catch fire”…..very cleaver of Br Hopkins!…starting the meal of images with the God-man Joshua Emmanuel, who said, “I shall make thy fishers of men” and combining it with another name given to him so often “King” …and coming up with “Kingfisher”. I will tell that to every Kingfisher-bird I see from now on, Perhaps it explains why they are such proud birds? “catch fire”…fire ( internal fire of Spirt ) is synonymous with Angels, as in Psalms “What makes his Angels Spirits and those who serve him ….flames of fire.” And then his “dragonflies draw flames”, caught hold of me personally, because when I do meditations / contemplations during the summer by the lake …dragonflies Will come and land on my right hand….as if to say ..” I’ll have some of that fire too, Thank you.” So I read that as …OK, Hopkins experiences that about dragonflies too! Adding more to the “fire” of Self. Second line “As tumbled over rim in roundy wells” to an Essene the primary energy centres of the three bodies are of enormous importance ….on the material body they are disks and with proper training one becomes very aware of the Energy fields around these “rounds well” ( but not interfering with it ) as the Etheric Vitality from the Holy Spirt and its Archangel “tumbles into them”…feeding fuel to the flame the dragonfly and I like to “draw” in. OK enough from me. Be Well Be Present EdS Read More1 Reply Ose6 years agoOseDear Ed, this is such a deep interpretation of yours. Thank you. To me, I understand “kingfisher” as the expression, the impulse given to the reader to rise beyond one`s Self and become the One who one truly is and always has been. I guess this is not far from your understanding. Thanks for the part with the fire, as I can feel you are right, it is to allow the internal fire of Spirit to fully catch fire to rise beyond. Your understanding of the image of the dragonflies and mentioning your ... Dear Ed, this is such a deep interpretation of yours. Thank you. To me, I understand “kingfisher” as the expression, the impulse given to the reader to rise beyond one`s Self and become the One who one truly is and always has been. I guess this is not far from your understanding. Thanks for the part with the fire, as I can feel you are right, it is to allow the internal fire of Spirit to fully catch fire to rise beyond. Your understanding of the image of the dragonflies and mentioning your personal experience is helpful. I did not even get the point before that “dragonflies draw flames” means intensify the fire. Suddenly, the world of images of the poem is on it´s way to become fully alive. Thank you so much! Yours gracefully, Ose Read More1 Reply Ed Schulte6 years agoEd SchulteDear OseOne I would say you are spot-on (imo) wrt to the sonnet’s opening line but we must keep in mind that the true talent of this type of ‘flow’ is unique in that it speaks to many level consciousness. Even the straight laced Victorian interpretations of Hopkins times are fine, IF that happens to be ones, “cup of tea”, consciousness wise.. But, as you have yourself expressed it, there is way more to Hopkins images going on there and you are very much resonating with Br David�... Dear OseOne I would say you are spot-on (imo) wrt to the sonnet’s opening line but we must keep in mind that the true talent of this type of ‘flow’ is unique in that it speaks to many level consciousness. Even the straight laced Victorian interpretations of Hopkins times are fine, IF that happens to be ones, “cup of tea”, consciousness wise.. But, as you have yourself expressed it, there is way more to Hopkins images going on there and you are very much resonating with Br David’s sentiments of focusing on Self and the internal / transformational / “Fire”. I intentionally kept my interpretation of “Dragonflies” in an external mode but your reply leads me to say more on this line. I am sure you are familiar with the traditional images of Archangel and their Angels, the ones showing them as having bird like wings? Well that is a bit of laziness I am afraid. Christian mystics laugh and say, “They are not birds! those are “Wings of Fire” behind them! So now here is a better connection to “dragonflies” …..those multi-changing colours on the multiple wings of a dragonfly are much closer to the ‘Archangelic fiery Wings’ described by Mystics. ( If you look at the images painted on the tomb walls in ancient Egypt ….there is another more accurate depiction of the “fiery wings”. ) So again the second line really does contain the same as the first , …..as you say it ..”it is to allow the internal fire of Spirit to fully catch fire to rise beyond and intensify the fire” Yes indeed……more and more,……… like spontaneous combustion happening in every line! Be Well Be Fire EdS Read More1 Reply Anna6 years agoAnnaNow, if I don’t think of my troubles, I am in front of mountains, taking a lunch, before another meeting at work. Through a large window I can see the top of the mountains, grey clouds covering them. It’s snowing! That’s the splendor, now. 5 Reply Aine6 years agoAineAnd when you wrote this, the light was just rising here as another day whispered its beginnings. That is something I can appreciate now, how miracles are happening all aroubd each of us where ever we may happen to be. 3 Reply Ose6 years agoOseIn my heart deep joy is rising. I will try to express my appreciation for the splendor I started to see this morning. Today, while waking up, I see: nature is covered in pure white light, and the sun is shining on the first snow. All is beauty around today after a long dark night. I will go outside, trying to take it all in while walking in this white stillness. Crystal clear stars of utter beauty, which silently fell from the sky; a gift given by you, creator of all, to all of us. Your transcen... In my heart deep joy is rising. I will try to express my appreciation for the splendor I started to see this morning. Today, while waking up, I see: nature is covered in pure white light, and the sun is shining on the first snow. All is beauty around today after a long dark night. I will go outside, trying to take it all in while walking in this white stillness. Crystal clear stars of utter beauty, which silently fell from the sky; a gift given by you, creator of all, to all of us. Your transcending light is shining through these beautiful stars, through everything, transforming everything into timeless beauty. Nameless of all names, heart beyond time and space, glory to you! Let me bow deeply to your light. Here I am, unconditionally, for your service. Read More6 Reply Pilgrim6 years agoPilgrimDear Ose, you take me right to this place with your beautiful description. Thank you! 4 Reply Anna6 years agoAnnaDear Ose, as always, your kind heart is in your words, like in a poem. 3 Reply Aine6 years agoAineHow beautiful, Ose! Truly, the cathedral of creation draws our eyes irrevocably to the Creator. I love your humble response to such splendor. 3 Reply Kevin6 years agoKevinBeing more aware of light, its shadows, its brightness and each mired of hues in between. Yesterday I had some work to do on the grounds of our Quaker meetinghouse and community house. I loaded my camera gear into the van thinking I’d spend some time along the way exploring some scenes with my camera. However, I arrived home, twenty-two miles later, never having touched my camera. Perhaps today I’ll capture a slice of that splendor in light. 5 Reply Antoinette6 years agoAntoinetteIt’s a beautiful day. It’s cold and clear. I’m grateful for a sunny day ! 4 Reply 1 2 Next » My Private Gratitude Journal Write an entry in your private gratefulness journal Get Started This site is brought to you by A Network for Grateful Living, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax deductible in the U.S.A. CONTRIBUTE https://demo.gratefulness.org/content/uploads/2015/03/GX-Gold-Participant-L.png Community Engagement Guidelines Privacy Policy [email protected] Connect with us on Social Media: © 2000 - 2024, A Network for Grateful Living Website by Briteweb
