I am like a green olive tree
in the house of LOVE – in the house of
GOD!
If the only prayer you said
in your whole life was,
"thank you," that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart
The strength of
your thought lies,
as you’ll find,
in expressing
gratitude, and to live by it,
and to remember
God's bounty throughout the year!
String the
pearls of His love,
string the
garlands of His flowers,
stretch them
out,
step into the
sunshine
and leave behind
the dark!
Thanks to joy,
to love, to peace of mind!
After all,
“thanks” is an action,
a “thanks”
with just your lips
would be flat,
because the true
Thanksgiving
comes from the
heart.
Be grateful at
the start of a day
not just for
that one day
but for each new
morning
that brings
light,
rest and shelter,
food and health,
and so much more.
Thy goodness, dear LOVE divine, provides, and is universal,
belonging to all
ages and to all minds.
There is always
a time for gratitude,
and a new
beginning,
you are alive in
those moments
when your heart
is aware of its treasure!
Thanksgiving is
the pleasure of peace,
the celebration
of work and a simple life . . .
a mutual
celebration that speaks the poetry
of the turn of
the seasons, the beauty of seedtime
and harvest, and
the deep, deep connection
of all things
true and good with God.
If ever
thankless and believing there is
nothing to be
thankful for,
he who
sits at the table, morose and thankless
for the food
thereupon,
is as if he had
no food.
Nothing is your
own,
except that
which you acknowledge
in deep
appreciation,
of which
thankfulness is the greatest part!
A truly thankful
heart
hath a continual
celebration of goodness,
this is the
eternal food!
LOVE has more
than one dwelling;
one in heaven,
i.e., in harmony,
and the other in
a gracious and thankful heart.
It takes a pure
love to praise God
for those
unrealized blessings
than for those
you once enjoyed
or those you
have now.
And though I
have no silver and gold,
I'll move in
thanks, like an ever-flowing river!
Gratitude
unlocks the fullness of a life,
it turns what we
have into enough,
and adds more
and more,
it turns
rejection into receptivity,
confusion
yielding to order,
uncertainty to
clarity. Gratitude
makes sense of
our life and loving,
brings peace for
today and creates
a vision of
unity for tomorrow.
Even though we
thank God for the grace
we ourselves
have received, it should be as easy
to give thanks
to God, and to give praise
for the
blessings given to those who need it most.
Our gratitude
should never sleep!
Do we not have
the sunshine in the morning,
and the moonbeam at night?
I wish you a very blessed Thanksgiving!
November 2012
Thou visitest the earth,
and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest
it with the river of God, which is full
of water:
thou preparest them corn,
when thou hast so provided for it.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly:
thou settlest the furrows thereof:
thou makest it soft with showers:
thou blessest the springing thereof.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness,
And thy paths drop fatness.
They drop upon the pastures
of the wilderness:
and the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks;
the valleys also are covered over with corn;
they shout for joy, they also sing.
--Psalm 65:9-13
Thou hast given so
much to me,
Give one thing more,
-
a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it
pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings
had spare days,
But such a heart
whose pulse
may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert
Ah! on Thanksgiving day....
When the care-wearied man seeks
his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles
where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~John
Greenleaf Whittier
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
~Native American
Saying
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite,
to-day is big with blessings.
--Science and Health, p. vii 1-2,
by Mary Baker Eddy
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop
