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The Heart of Prayer

WORD FOR THE DAY
Tuesday, Jul. 14 (gratefulness.org)

What is real prayer? Praise to God.
And the meaning of praise? Appreciating;
thus opening the heart more and more
to the divine beauty one sees in manifestation.

Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bowl of Saki

Added by Ron Alexander on July 14, 2009 at 10:03am — No Comments

A Great Reason to be Grateful and Compassionate

Gratitude - Another reason to be grateful for everything
WORD FOR THE DAY
Monday, Jul. 13 (gratefulness.org)

Every time you express gratitude
or compassion for any aspect of
yourself or someone else,
you breathe life in.

Mariah Fenton Gladis
Tales of a Wounded Healer

Added by Ron Alexander on July 13, 2009 at 5:00am — No Comments

Breaking waves, whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves

WORD FOR THE DAY
Friday, Jul. 10(gratefulness.org)

The world is holy. We are holy.
All life is holy. Daily prayers
are delivered on the lips
of breaking waves,
the whisperings of grasses,
the shimmering of leaves.

Terry Tempest Williams
from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)

Added by Ron Alexander on July 10, 2009 at 6:53am — No Comments

Joy and you shall form an invincible host

WORD FOR THE DAY
Tuesday, Jul. 7 (gratefulness.org)

Your success and happiness lie in you...
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host
against difficulties.

Helen Keller

Added by Ron Alexander on July 7, 2009 at 3:24pm — No Comments

Maslow's "Capacity to Appreciate"

WORD FOR THE DAY
Friday, Jul. 3 (gratefulness.org)

Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate
again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods
of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Abraham H. Maslow

Added by Ron Alexander on July 3, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

Give Yourself Unconditional Love

You will wisely extend to
yourself an unconditional love
that will be the
light of your day,
the light of your life,
the light that will
brighten up the world.
Peter McKenna

Added by Ron Alexander on June 27, 2009 at 7:17am — No Comments

May Your Heart Be An Altar

WORD FOR THE DAY(gratefulness.org)
Thursday, Jun. 25

May your heart be an altar, from which
the bright flame of unending
thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Embrace the World

Added by Ron Alexander on June 25, 2009 at 11:34am — No Comments

Pure Hope

Pure Hope
WORD FOR THE DAY
Monday, Jun. 22 (gratefulness.org)

The hope that is left after all your
hopes are gone -- that is pure hope,
rooted in the heart.

David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

Added by Ron Alexander on June 22, 2009 at 9:08am — No Comments

Love Truth, Love Silence

WORD FOR THE DAY
Saturday, Jun. 20 (gratefulness.org)

If you love truth, be a lover of silence.
Silence, like the sunlight will
illuminate you in God.

St. Issac - 7th Century Hermit Monk

Added by Ron Alexander on June 20, 2009 at 7:11am — 2 Comments

Turn your face...

WORD FOR THE DAY
Wednesday, Jun. 17 (Gratefulness.org)

Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.

Maori proverb

Added by Ron Alexander on June 17, 2009 at 4:19pm — No Comments

Makes ya wanna dance in joy

This video was made in the Antwerp, Belgium Central Train Station on March 23, 2009, with no warning to the passengers passing through the station.

At 8:00 am a recording of Julie Andrews singing 'Do, Re, Mi' begins to play on the public address system. As the bemused passengers watch in amazement, some 200 dancers begin to appear from the crowd and station entrances.

They created this amazing stunt with just two rehearsals!

Enjoy! I hope it comes up - I have not had… Continue

Added by Ron Alexander on June 16, 2009 at 11:36am — No Comments

In Joy

WORD FOR THE DAY
Saturday, Jun. 6 (gratefulness.org)

How fit to employ all the heart and
the soul and the senses
forever in joy!

Robert Browning

Added by Ron Alexander on June 6, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

"Everybody loves me, some just don't know it yet."

The title is a quote from one of my favorite teachers, Byron Katy. I add "I love everybody, though I don't know it yet."

>Everything you teach, you are learning.
Teach only love, and learn that
love is yours and you are love.
ACIM T,42

Added by Ron Alexander on June 1, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

The Great Present

The Only Moment We Can Be Alive

I have arrived, I am home
In the here, In the now
I am solid, I am free
In the ultimate, I dwell

From Thich Nhat Hahn in his book No Death, No Fear

Added by Ron Alexander on May 28, 2009 at 7:18pm — No Comments

we wounded warriors

We Wounded Warriors

In Memory of my Brother Medivac Pilot Barry Died (1968) While Saving Lives

Ron Alexander

(thanks to alwaysluv4us for Memorial Day Tribute above)

we wounded warriors

are veterans

of the battlefield

of the heart

all have been hurt

had hearts broken

several times

many times

for most sensitive

healing hearts

disabled or enabled

transforming brokenness

into openness

breaking… Continue

Added by Ron Alexander on May 25, 2009 at 9:40am — No Comments

For Peace - Remember we belong to each other

WORD FOR THE DAY
Sunday, May. 24 (gratefulness.org)

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.

Blessed Mother Teresa

Added by Ron Alexander on May 24, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Blessing Giving & Receiving Blessing

WORD FOR THE DAY
Saturday, May. 23 (gratefulness.org)

>The more alert we become
to the blessing that flows into us
through everything we touch,
the more our own touch
will bring blessing.

David Steindl-Rast
A Listening Heart

Added by Ron Alexander on May 23, 2009 at 11:12am — No Comments

Gratitude, Limitless Openness for Surprise, Fullness & Hope

Word of the Day (gratefulness.org)

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

Brother David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

Added by Ron Alexander on May 22, 2009 at 3:12am — No Comments

One Thread

WORD FOR THE DAY
Thursday, May. 21 (gratefulness.org)

Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.

Shaker proverb

Added by Ron Alexander on May 21, 2009 at 5:36am — No Comments

Harnessing the Energies of Love

Harnessing the Energies of Love
WORD FOR THE DAY
Friday, May. 15 (gratefullness.org)

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
Teilhard de Chardin

Added by Ron Alexander on May 15, 2009 at 6:53am — No Comments