 Spiritual: October 21, 2020 Issue [#10425] |
This week: Expressing Gratitude Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
Melody Beattie
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."
Doris Day
"The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy."
Henri Nouwen
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
Lionel Hampton
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We are grateful, that 2020 is coming to an end. We are hopeful, that 2021 will be a better year. Both gratitude and hope are spiritual attributes that we need to practice every day. If you are not in the habit of practicing them, how do you get into the habit? One way to get into the habit is to practice gratitude every day. Once you list everything you have to be grateful for, you will find there is hope.
There are several ways to begin practicing gratitude. You can start a gratitude journal, make a Thankful Thursday gratitude list, take the gratitude challenge, or do a gratitude calendar with gratitude exercises for each day of the month. Over the years I have made Thankful Thursday lists containing then items or less. I have done the gratitude challenge for nineteen, twenty-one, thirty, and ninety-five days. I have not taken the gratitude calendar challenge with specific gratitude exercises.
You can find several examples of gratitude calendar pages online or you can make them yourself. One of the exercises on the gratitude calendar was to write someone a thank you letter. Another was to take a walk in your neighborhood or around the block, notice the things you are grateful to see or have, and make a journal entry about it. I think it would be a good idea to write a an essay or poem about something you are grateful for.
Do you have any ideas about an exercise or prompt to put on a gratitude calendar? If so, please submit them to the newsletter.
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