GRATITUDE

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--

Alana

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--

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