I Am Grateful

I am grateful.

I am grateful for the breath of life. It has been said that if you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong! Take a slow, deep, full body breath and savor the expansion, lightness, and presence of the light of Spirit filling your lungs and circulating throughout your body.

I am thankful to God, the source of all things. Thank you for the abundance of gifts and grace that you lavish upon the earth. May we all be awake, open, receptive, and grateful. Thanks be to God!

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.  ~Epictetus

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!  ~Henry Ward Beecher

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.  ~Meister Eckhart

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say “thank you?”  ~William A. Ward

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.  It will change your life mightily.  ~Gerald Good

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.  ~Author Unknown

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  ~William Arthur Ward

It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks. – Donald Curtis

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. – Johannes A. Gaertner

I am grateful for all of my readers. May you be uplifted and inspired. May you experience heaven on earth. May the riches of God’s love pour down upon you! Happy Thanksgiving!

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