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Gratitude Lounge

Welcome! We are glad you are here. This is an open space where everyone belongs, and everyone is welcome. Please introduce yourself as you feel comfortable and join in sharing your experience of grateful living. To get started you might reflect upon questions such as these: What am I grateful for? What is grateful living inspiring me to do? What are some blessings in my life (including ones in disguise)? How am I being supported right now? What connects me to wonder, awe, or a sense of the sacred? You are welcome to include images and links for videos to illustrate your reflections.

  • Holly in Ohio

    Happy International Rabbit Day! (photo credit Julian Rad, of Austria)

    • Mica

      Thanks for the wonderful photo, Holly, and the Day – it’s Save your Photos Day on my calendar. 🙂 there are many for every day

  • Mike S

    For kitty lovers here is our cat Panya. he is about eight months old in this picture and it’s now four. he is such a beloved member of our family..

  • Mike S

    Good morning. Just wondering if anyone is using Snapchat. I just downloaded it and I’m setting it up.

    • Michele

      I use it all the time:)

    • Holly in Ohio

      I have not used it but I’m willing to try. I can’t today, though. I will be popping in and out of the Lounge today, but I need to get some work done. My kids use SnapChat… it sounds fun!

  • dragonfly

    Canadian PoeTree display

  • Carol

    Between today’s quote from Anne Lamont and Richard Rohr’s daily meditation for today ( https://cac.org/daily-meditations/becoming-a-grand-parent-2022-09-23/ ) I am filled with peace!

    • Mica

      Thanks, Carol – I missed yesterday’s meditation but an a fan of Anne Lamont. Maybe that’ll teach me not to skip days here 😐

    • Anna

      Dear Carol, I have not read cac meditation, but surely Anne Lamott’s quote fits with many circumstances in my life…when people think to be “salvator mundi…”🌸

  • Mica

    Brother David and others in new gratitude movie!
    https://gratituderevealed.com/joinus/

  • Carol
    Translation of the Lord’s Prayer from Aramaic by Neil Douglas-Klotz Abwoon d’bwashmaya O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos/ you create all that moves in light. Nethqadash shmakh Focus your light within us–make it useful: as the rays of a beacon show the way. Teytey malkuthakh Create your reign of unity now–through our firey hearts and willing hands. Nehwey sebyanach aykanna d’bwashmaya aph b’arha. Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms. Hab...

    Translation of the Lord’s Prayer from Aramaic by Neil Douglas-Klotz
    Abwoon d’bwashmaya
    O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos/ you create all that moves in light.
    Nethqadash shmakh
    Focus your light within us–make it useful: as the rays of a beacon show the way.
    Teytey malkuthakh
    Create your reign of unity now–through our firey hearts and willing hands.
    Nehwey sebyanach aykanna d’bwashmaya aph b’arha.
    Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms.
    Habwlan lachma d’sunqanan yaomana.
    Grant what we need each day in bread and insight:
    subsistence for the call of growing life.
    Washboqlan khaubayn (wakhtahayn)
    aykana daph khnan shbwoqan l’khayyabayn.
    Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
    as we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt.
    Wela tahlan l’nesyuna
    Don’t let us enter forgetfulness
    Ela patzan min bisha.
    But free us from unripeness
    Metol dilakhie malkutha wahayla wateshbukhta l’ahlam almin.
    From you is born all ruling will, the power and the life to do,
    the song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews.
    Ameyn.
    Truly–power to these statements–
    may they be the source from which all my actions grow.

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  • Holly in Ohio

    I’m very excited for this blessing. A few times in the last couple of weeks I thought I heard an owl and night. Tonight there was no mistaking it. It must have been perched close to the house and I listened to it for about half an hour. It is a Barred Owl. I texted my next door neighbor, who is a professional nature photographer. He is excited, too!

  • Drew Blanton

    Today at Thrive Upstate we had something that might be called a gratefulness gathering. There was a little tree on the wall, and each of us had to write something we were grateful for on leaves of paper. “Friends” was the word I wrote. A friend put it on the tree.

  • Laura

    Thank you for the post from CAC, Carol. I highly recommend the book that CAC excerpted — “The Grace in Aging” by Kathleen Dowling Singh.

  • Avril

    We made it to a new season. Happy Fall! It’s miraculous.

  • Carol

    Such a beautifully offering at Center for Action and Contemplation today.

    A Noble Task

    • Mica

      Thank you, Carol – it looks like a great site. The quote is wonderful:
      “To live a life of an elder involves ripening into clear-eyed acceptance of the way things actually exist.” I just emailed it to a friend who so sadly needs that lesson!

      • Carol

        Mica, I think you would find the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer interesting as it says, “save us from unripening. Here’s a Link:
        https://www.wisdom2be.com/gems-poetry-wisdomstories/the-lords-prayer-a-contemporary-translation-from-aramaic-by-neil-douglas-klotz Hope it works. If not google neil douglas klotz or Aramaic Lord’s Prayer

    • Avril

      Thank you Carol!

  • Holly in Ohio
    Good morning! I am grateful this morning for the lovely video link that Mica posted for us (I highly recommend checking it out!) This morning I have a few minutes to drink my large tea and browse and begin reading some library books before I start my day (scrubbing tile glue off of the kitchen floor today, I think). I am also this morning once again thankful for our Public Libraries! What a treat! (oops- I just realized I forgot to look for that book Rabbit recommended! Oh well. I will be ...

    Good morning!

    I am grateful this morning for the lovely video link that Mica posted for us (I highly recommend checking it out!)

    This morning I have a few minutes to drink my large tea and browse and begin reading some library books before I start my day (scrubbing tile glue off of the kitchen floor today, I think). I am also this morning once again thankful for our Public Libraries! What a treat! (oops- I just realized I forgot to look for that book Rabbit recommended! Oh well. I will be back there today) Today I am also thankful for a free workshop being hosted by the public library this evening about ‘seasonal herbal remedies.’ A local homesteader is going to demonstrate how to make elderberry syrup, fire cider, and some other things. I dashed to the library late yesterday to look for some books about herbal medicine ahead of the crowd. I was pleased to find a large section, including many new titles. I selected four to look at in depth this morning, and I will choose 1 to read and I will take the others back today to take out again later The first one I am looking at this morning is called The Healing Garden by Juliet Blankespoor. It is lovely to sit here in the early morning sunshine, with my tea and good books, and the sunshine striking the maple tree and the elm tree outside my window, knowing friends here at gratefulness.org, around the globe, are similarly looking to enjoy their day.

    Books are friends, too. She who can read and has a library is never without friends! 😂📚📖📘

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    • Mica

      Holly 🙂 I sent your book choice to my friend who gave me the arnica oil she had made. Thanks 🙂

  • Mary

    Sending love to all on prayer Tuesday.
    ♥️
    Mary

  • Mica

    Warm wishes to you on Prayer Tuesday. I received the message,
    “DON’T SABOTAGE YOUR SAGE” in a recent 3-min meditation at the link below. This message was inspired by Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, and the link to the 3-min meditation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LPuE3rueVY

    • Holly in Ohio

      Thank you so much, Mica. That was just the reminder I needed to get back on track with meditation, and it was BRILLIANT! A very engaging, short video, very much to the point! ty! ❤

  • Annie

    Happy Monday dear friends! Dropping into check the Word of the Day…So you are a gift I gave myself ….xoxo Have a great day!

  • Rabbit

    • Mica

      Thank you, Rabbit – that’s one of the songs we sang when we marched to try to prevent the invasion of Iraq 🙂 😐 🙁 ?

    • Holly in Ohio

      Thank you, Rabbit for the music. Thank you also for the recommendation of Miss Cecily’s Recipes for Exceptional Ladies. I think I will try to find it at the library! 😃

  • Holly in Ohio

    Dragonfly’s reflection in the Daily Question for today is quite lovely, and reminded me of this song:

  • Yram

    I had a moment about a month ago! I was coming home an unfamiliar way. I came to a four way stop and the cars were not moving. My first thought was panic! What happened! And what happened was a respectful wait for a doe and her fawn to cross the road. What a moment of peace and awe.

  • Drew Blanton

    I was in a play about cars this past Tuesday at Thrive Upstate. I played Chris the Cadillac.

    • Yram

      Congrats! That is awesome!

    • Holly in Ohio

      Nice! I wish I could have been there to watch!

    • Mica

      That’s wonderful, Drew! I went to a pet parade today 🐕🐩🐕🐩🐍😺🐦lots of dogs, 1 snake, 1 cat, 1 bird – and my granddaughter played in the band 🙂

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