You and I cannot stand still, or procrastinate, be ungrateful, or even barren of right ideas and deeds, when our thought and heart and life and work, are full of gratitude … it moves us -- because gratitude is a mover, it moves you and I forward – it is a divine force, power, and grace. You could say it enriches the thought-soil to keep it fertile, out of which productive actions grow! Not those fruitless, tired, stale, notions of thanklessness, but those fresh, creative, fruitful attributes of
thankfulness.
–Eva-Maria—
Morning thanks –
the sparrow also
breaks its fast
--Carol Purington--
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Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
--Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 494--
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NEW YORK CITY
Gratitude and humility:
This is what is meant by seeking Truth, Christ, not “for the loaves and fishes,” nor, like the Pharisee, with the arrogance of rank and display of scholarship, but … from the summit of devout consecration, with the oil of gladness and the perfume of gratitude, with tears of [humility] …
--Mary Baker Eddy, from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 367—
The shadow of ingratitude –
cannot make the sunlight
of gratitude less strong.
--Eva-Maria—
Creation:
God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.
–Science and Health, p. 258--
Luzern/Switzerland
Bolton, Massachusetts
For the thoughtful there [is no lack or loss]. Many let their happiness die long before they pass on.
–Baltasar Gracian, Jesuiten monk (1601-1658)—
Manners indeed are like the cipher in arithmetic – they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
God did not promise us we would find the perfect spouse, the perfect house, or the perfect job … He promised us that we would find Him.
Having found Him, surprise of surprises, He will add all the above.
(Perhaps not all … but enough …)
--Eva-Maria—
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite,
to-day is big with blessings.
--Science and Health, p. vii:1-2--
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.
--The Bible, Colossians 4:2--
"I am the Lord thy God
which teacheth
thee to profit ..."
--Isaiah 48:17--
If I were to wish for anything,
I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense
of potential, for the eye which,
ever young and ardent,
sees the possible.
--Soren Kierkegaard, 19-century Danish philosopher from his “Either/ Or” volume I of Diapsalmata (1843, translated 1987)--
a painting on white unprepared cardboard, by Eva-Maria
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
--Scriptures, I Thess. 5:21--
George Washington Monument in Boston Public Park
Be rich toward God
Singing, planting rice,
village songs more lovely
than famous city poems
--Basho--
Much joy to YOU!
Eva-Maria
Eva-Maria
