Seeing the Good: Day 12
November 19, 2024 Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted – a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. – Rabbi Harold […]
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