gratitude
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Days 22-26 – To Savor – The Only Path to Gratitude
A hyperactive child I remain a hyperactive adult. Hyperactivity interferes with gratitude. There is one path to gratitude: Learning to savor. We can only “now-live” if we slow down by savoring. Continue reading
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Day 365- Day 4 – Have a JOYFUL New Year
Happy is nice but joyful is better. Happiness is a bouncing ball that can sail out of bounds. Joy can endure. It is the light that does not go out when storms blow in. Happiness is fed by events without. Joy… Continue reading
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Days 37-41 Gratitude or Pride?
Tethered to the earth we struggle to express ourselves with the best words we can find. What happens to your energy when you choose the word “gratitude” instead of “pride?” Continue reading
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Days 67-71 – The Secret of Gratitude: Timeless Celebration
In 1973 neurologist Oliver Sacks gave us a timeless gift (one of many.) He penned the book Awakenings. Seventeen years later it became an Academy Award nominated film. Patients frozen into silence & immobility are given a new drug. After… Continue reading
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Days 354-355 Deepest Gratitude
Listening to Christmas by Alan Harris Have you ever heard snow? Not the howling wind of a blizzard, not the crackling of snow underfoot, but the actual falling of snow? We heard it one night in… Continue reading
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Days 219-220 – Anger & Compassion
“One of the hardest practices of Radical Loving Care is adopting an attitude of grace amid another’s anger.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 327-328 – Those Who Rekindle Our Light
“…hope is a ship on the horizon. And it is sailing our way.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 159-160 – Thank You
How much wiser it is for us to follow a practice that is much more consistent with happiness – to make the choice, each day, to say a quiet “thank you” for God’s Love. For we are blessed with the… Continue reading
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Days 328-330 – Delight
Love holds us as close as we will allow ourselves to be held. Continue reading
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Days 300-302 – “Tranquil Joy”
Gratitude is a healing ointment for a wounded soul. Continue reading
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