Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. Lord, fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever we gaze, that the bush burns, unconsumed. And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness and exclaim in wonder, "How filled with awe is this place and we did not know it." Jewish Prayer … [Read more...]
Prayer – Edward Hays – Quote of the Week
Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my many gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.Edward Hays … [Read more...]
Ten Inspirational Quotes to Bless Your Thanksgiving Day
It’s Thanksgiving here in the USA and I know not all of you are from this country but each day can be a day of thanks if we intentionally seek to be live gratefully. I am thankful for each of you reading this post today. May each path you travel be filled with thankfulness.Here is some inspiration for you today:If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart (one of my favorites!)Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton WilderGive thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American SayingGratitude ... goes beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but … [Read more...]
Wise Words from Mother Teresa – Quote of the Week
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things. To us what matters is an individual. To get to love the person we must come in close contact with him. If we wait till we get the numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers.- Mother Teresa … [Read more...]
Be Alert – Quote of the Week – Henry David Thoreau
My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God's lurking places, to attend to all the oratorios and the operas in nature.Henry David Thoreau … [Read more...]
Home
I am home after a wonderful pilgrimage to Scotland and England. Today’s quote seemed a to fit my sense of arriving home.Home - Quote of the Week“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same.You realize what’s changed, is you.”Eric Roth … [Read more...]
A Blessing – John O’Donohue
In honor of my pilgrimage to Great Britain,, I send you all a blessing today:May you recognize in your life, the presence, power and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, That your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your own individuality and difference. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, That behind the facade of your life there is something beautiful, good, and eternal happening. May you learn to see yourself with the same delight, pride, and expectation with which God sees you in every moment.John O'Donohue … [Read more...]
A Scottish Blessing
In honor of my pilgrimage to Scotland and England, I send you all a Scottish Blessing todayMay the blessing of light be on you - light without and light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire, so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it. And may light shine out of the two eyes of you, like a candle set in the window of a house, bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm. And may the blessing of the rain be on you, may it beat upon your Spirit and wash it fair and clean, and leave there a shining pool where the blue of Heaven shines, and sometimes a star. And may the blessing of the earth be on you, soft under your feet as you pass along the roads, soft under you as you lie out on it, tired at the end of day; and may it rest easy over you when, at last, you lie out under it. May it rest so lightly over you that your soul may be out from under it quickly; up and off and on its way to God. And now may the Lord bless you, and … [Read more...]