Seeing the Good: Day 7
November 14, 2024 Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey, television host, actress, philanthropist
Seeing the Good: Day 6
November 13, 2024 Thankfulness has an inner connection with humility. It recognizes that what we are and what we have is due to others and above all, to God. -Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, philosopher and theologian
Seeing the Good: Day 5
November 12, 2024 At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lit the flame within us. – Albert Schweitzer, theologian
Seeing the Good: Day 4
November 11, 2024 Praying. It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which […]
Seeing the Good: Day 3
November 10, 2024 God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” - William A. Ward, pastor and teacher
Seeing the Good: Day 2
November 9, 2024 How strange we are in the world, and how presumptuous our doings! Only one response can maintain us: gratefulness for witnessing the wonder, for the gift of our unearned right to serve, to adore, and to fulfill. It is gratefulness which makes the soul great. –Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, philosopher, theologian, activist
Seeing the Good: Day 1
November 8, 2024 If the only prayer you say in your life is “Thank you,” that will suffice. –Meister Echkart, theologian and philosopher