When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb Remember Gratitude
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
~Jackie Windspear
Veterns Day 11.11.07 Rev. Richard Burdick offers a fabulous November Talk. Remembering those who gave in service and bringing us all around to that place of spiritual freedom that is the truth of us. Hear the beginning or the whole talk
here!
For a sample here: and the whole talk is here:
"Borrowed" from his website: www.richardburdick.com
Operation Gratitude: Remembering Soldiers with gifts from home:
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
Live Gratitude for our homes & planet:
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought;
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
~G.K. Chesterton
Start with everyday remembrances ... start with the breath.
The more you give thanks for the breath, the more miraculous it seems. ~Laurie Story 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 The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer
Here's a Sunday Celebration for Memorial Day, Vetrans Day, all loved ones, and faith ...