2025 Seeing the Good: Day 11
November 16, 2025 Do you seethe sun shines, day after daywhether you have faith or notthe sparrows continueto sing their songeven when you forget to sing yours…. Life is not a straight lineit’s a downpour of gifts, please—hold out your hand – Julia Fehrenbacher, poet
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 10
November 15, 2025 Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire, writer and philosopher
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 9
November 14, 2025 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 […]
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 8
November 13, 2025 If you have done a large kindness for your neighbor, let it be in your eyes a small matter. If your neighbor extended to you a small kindness, let it be in your eyes a large favor. -Avot d’Rabbi Nathan 41:11, 9th century CE, Babylonia
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 7
November 12, 2025 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
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 6
November 11, 2025 For me every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart every time I can meet someone and look at their smile. –Elie Wiesel, writer, professor, activist
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 5
November 10, 2025 If the only prayer you say in your life is “Thank you,” that will suffice. –Meister Echkart, theologian and philosopher
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 4
November 9, 2025 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
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 3
November 8, 2025 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
2025 Seeing the Good: Day 2
November 7, 2025 God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.Have you used one to say “thank you?” – William A. Ward, pastor and teacher