Category: Gratitude

Blessed without Forgetting

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

— Unknown —

  P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you.  Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap.  For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

THANKFUL…

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

  P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Psalm 118:24, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  (ESV)

Thanks in ALL Things

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

— G.K. Chesterton —

  Acknowledging Him in all we do is the key to being at peace. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Psalm 37:5, “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act”

Good in Everything

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.

— Rabbi Harold Kushner —

  P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Galatians 5:22, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness”

Ordinary Blessings

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

— William Arthur Ward —

  The key to experiencing the type of gratitude Ward describes above is getting connected to a grateful spirit as soon as you start your day and then choosing to remain in it throughout the day. My grateful spirit is turned on during my morning prayer time with God and my prayer always starts this way::…

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Beautiful Takes Work

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. Beautiful people do not just happen.

— Dr. Kubler Ross —

  Somewhere in our life’s journey we choose to focus on the garbage or the gold. (Often the gold is hidden in the garbage!) If you dwell on the garbage you become grumpy. If we look at the gold we become grateful. Life is crap.  Life is beautiful. Life is both. The question is, which…

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Grateful Hinge

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

— Brother David Steindl-Rast —

  Where do you find your happiness these days? I have found a heart that is always in need is a heart that is very seldom happy.  Whereas a heart that is always grateful and content is very seldom not happy. …I lived on both sides of those tracks and having a grateful heart is definitely the…

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Grateful for His Word

Being cheerful or gloomy is a choice… As we continue filling our souls with gratitude during gratitude month, I was reminded yesterday during my Proverb reading of just how much of a difference having an attitude of cheerfulness will make in our lives.  The following verses come from Proverbs 15: v13.  A happy heart makes…

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Breathing Freedom

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.

— Anthony Robbins —

  Yesterday morning I got up at my usual time and sat down to do my daily program of devotion, meditation and prayer. My heart was extremely heavy because Paris had been attacked by terrorists the night before and a couple days earlier forty lives were taken in a senseless bombing in Beirut. I did…

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Rejoice

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

— Epictetus —

Epictetus said it well in this quote. Jesus says it even better in Luke 16:10, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much”  (NIV) …if you want to expand what you have you must show God gratitude and be responsible with the “little” in order to blessed with the “large.” P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com