Namaste Beloveds,

We greet you in great Gratitude, Thanks Giving and Thanks Living! Thanksgiving is a beautiful holiday of remembrance & celebration of abundance & family. In this Spirit, we have been deepening our Gratitude practice this month to truly live ~ every day ~ in the way of Thanks Living. To be grateful, yes, but to truly be gratitude in living that attitude of gratitude as a way of life. There are many circumstances that can challenge us in this and family gatherings can come at the top of the list! ~Some year I will write of our family's unusually challenging Thanksgiving tradition ~ But the good news is that gratitude conquers all challenges! By centering in gratitude, our hearts naturally stay open & receptive to the flow of grace ~ what a gift! Truly everything is a gift and the more we view our lives that way, the more our path of thanks living unfolds... Last week was my birthday and I survived to thrive from my annual plunge into the 'dark night of the judgemental ego'. This practice of wrestling with the dark seems to serve me as my gateway to gratitude.Thankfully I always rise up with a higher bird's eye view of my gift of life ~ armed with compassion & self Love to embrace another year. So here's wishing us all those open hearts ready to gratefully recognize & receive the Loving beauty & bounty we are so blessed with ~ every day, all day. Happy Thanks Living!

Growing Gratitude
As I express my gratitude, I become more aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever-expanding circles around a steady center. ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

We are celebrating gratitude & abundance this month by looking at what we have outside & in!
I am so grateful for this gift of life!
We have highlighted multiple pages for both gratitude & abundance. Our intergenerational, interfaith, multi-media calendar for November is a Harvest Of Gratitude; daily reminders of the divine online. We also have a free downloadable gratitude calendar you can fill in & affirm gratitude with ~use ours or make your own! Our biggest NEWs is our Multi-Media Mindful Matters Magazine! The 1st edition is Expressions Of Zeal! The next 2 are Thanks Living & Shining Joy ~ both should be live by Dec 1st! These powerful, portable pdfs have been sponsored by Sacred Path Yoga ~ thank you Keith Lickey! And they are yours to share simply by registering your e mail address. EnJOY!

Our Harvest Of Gratitude Play&Pray Calendar!

Prayer Practice

As we know, centering in prayer helps us live the intentions of our hearts & higher selves as well as honoring Source. Our November prayer celebrates giving thanks and living thanks!

Living Thanks

Dear Holy Creator who breathes in me,
Thank You for my heart that fully sees
all of my blessings this precious day;
Thank You for the cozy bed where I lay,
for my rising feet that carry me out to play,
for my ears to hear You in singing birds,
for my own voice speaking loving words.
Thank You for light in me shining Love,
for my arms reaching out to give hugs,
for my hands in loving service & care,
for my mind knowing blessings everywhere.
Thank You that my blessings always flow
and that my grateful heart grows & grows.
~LaurieStory

Family Faith: Sacred Space

Our home consciouness practice this month is building our chain of gratitude! Each day, Jeremiah & I make links in our chain of thanks. Using a small variation on the old paper chain, we are expressing our gratitude with color & shine & connecting the chain so the words show & flow into the room! Check out our short video on the rewly revised In Our Hands webpage! Also there is our revised Green Living segment, In Our Hands as we take on the power of using rechargeable batteries!

We gratefully walk to school each day ~1.5 miles for Jeremiah & 3 for me! On my birthday, I declared it a "Gratitude Walk!" & was blessed by fall fire roses! Walk with us!

See & Hear our Thanks Living!

Interfaith Inspirations

Read Lincoln's Prayer Proclamation ~!

Conscious Calendarizing

Reverent Resources!
Put the THANKS back in your day and you will be FULL! Those who give are thankful -
while those who are thankful give. ~Sark

I was so blessed to be part of a wonderful e program this fall offered by Sark; Dream Boogie: Your Dazzling Dance from Dreaming To Doing was a fun, uplifting, empowering way to re-connect with my dreams in a supportive, creative community of deightful dreamers! Technology truly is amazing these days in all that it offers and Sark is a bubbling, beautiful facilitator! Check out Planet Sark and all her fab e programs!
In doing the daily Play & Pray Calendar, I discovered an amazing inspirational website creating ripples of goodness! Explore the extraordinary power of tiny actions with the Ripple Project! Have an online meditation moment in the Pond! http://theripplesproject.org/pond
And in another of the amazing online telesummits, Adoley Odunton has some profound guests. Most recently, topics have included the healing power of the earth with Earthing & more breakthroughs on the 'other mind' that runs us ~ the subconscious ~ powerful teachers & healers heard here: http://www.wellnessrevolutionsummit.com/replay.html
It is with deep reverence & gratitude that you are wished the most joyous Thanks Living this beautiful November day! Namaste, Love, namaste.