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 Wilder
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
~Native American Saying
Gratitude … 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 now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed
or those we enjoy now.”
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him,
and bless his name. For the Lord is good…”
Psalm 100:4, 5a
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us–and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
– Thornton Wilder
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Thank you Desiray. Hope your day was wonderful too
Thanks Jennifer. Hope you had a blessed holiday. I am off in a bit for some midnight shopping with my daughter. Going more for the fellowship and fun of being with her than to find something.
happy Thanksgiving Day to you Jean and may you and your family have a great time together.
Beautiful words, Jean. Especially soaking up the quote by Thomas Merton now. Bless you! Happy Thanksgiving, friend!