Seeing the Good: Day 11
November 18, 2024 People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. – Salma Hayek, actress
Seeing the Good: Day 10
November 17, 2024 Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire, writer and philosopher
Seeing the Good: Day 9
November 16, 2024 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
Seeing the Good: Day 8
November 15, 2024 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
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