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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.

  • Anna

    At the end, after an exhausting pain, my father died, this afternoon.
    Dear friend, I have no words,
    But please, know that I love you all, for your friendship, your support and above all you prayers.
    I am surrounded by so many wonderful people, here where I live, and in this virtual space, I feel a warm embrace around my hearth.Please, Pray again for my father’s soul, for me, and for my family.
    Anna

    • Ose

      Dear Anna, my heart goes out to you. I am so sorry for your having lost your beloved father. I will continue to pray for him and will light a candle in my window, one for him to be guided well into the other realm and one for you. May His Love ease your pain and soothe your grief. I am happy that friends and family are with you. You and your family will be in my prayers, too.

    • Serafina

      Dearest Anna, We are so deeply sorry for your loss. We are sending you light and love. Your father and your family are in our prayers.

    • Pilgrim

      Dear, dear Anna, my heart is full with love and tenderness for you in the loss of your dearest father. I hold you and your family in prayer, light and love during these days and in the time ahead. The heavenly choir surrounds you all as they welcome your father in glory.

    • grateful sea

      Dearest Anna, I have no words that I could ever imagine would comfort you at this time of such a deep loss. I am so sorry. I love you. And I will continue to pray for your beloved father, for you dear Anna, and your family. Sending love from grateful sea..

  • Annie

    Good evening dear friends. I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. I am grateful I spent it with my daughter and her family. The dinner was so delicious ! I made roast butternut squash with cranberries to add to the meal. Best part is just being together. And I enjoyed my dog grandson Hendrix. Here is a pic of Hendrix from today. Wishing you all the very best ! Hmm I tried to upload the pic but it didn’t work 🙁

  • Drew Blanton

    I was recently in the hospital..

    • beckydriscoll

      Good morning all,
      ‘m new to the lounge.
      Hope you all have a good day. I had a few health challenges (mental and physical) this year but ‘feel I’m back on track now. I have a wonderful, understanding husband and for him I am eternally grateful. Thank you and God bless.

    • Pilgrim

      I hope you are doing okay now, Drew. Take good care of yourself.

  • Mica

    ‘I am thankful to be thankful’
    Last week, I – the author of this NYT piece! – invited readers to send us six words describing what made them thankful in 2020. It’s a form of writing — the six-word memoir — popularized by the author Larry Smith.

  • Mica

    I love the image with today’s quote – the green acorns form a spiral. Until I zoomed in, I thought it was ‘just’ circles. Happy Thanksgiving to all – my son was born 44 Thanksgivings ago!

  • Carla

    I’m stopping by today to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving / Day of Gratitude / Happy Thursday…however you might acknowledge this day. I’m grateful for the support, prayers, cyber hugs & smiles I’ve received from all of you! Namaste dear spiritual pilgrims.

  • Maggie

    I am brand new to the lounge but I would love prayers for a serious health issue. I have a large mass on my colon and need surgery but can’t find a surgeon who can do this special surgery.

    • Pilgrim

      We welcome you here, Maggie. I will pray that the right surgeon is made known to you soon. If there are any top rated medical schools near you, you might find the right doctor in their hospitals? I have found that to be true in my state.

    • Ose

      Welcome, dear Maggie, my prayers for healing are with you. May you be helped to find the specialist and be cured. Warmly, Ose

    • Carla

      Welcome Maggie! I hope You will find kindred spirits in these pages as we journey through life here, as I have. Namaste

    • Palm

      I have also lit a candle for you, dear Maggie. Welcome

    • grateful sea

      Dear Maggie, welcome to the Gratitude Lounge. I, too, light a candle for you on this site.

    • Mica

      Oh, dear Maggie – I’ll light a candle for you here. Give yourself lots of hugs (✿◡‿◡)

  • Anna

    I would like to reply to your posts, dear friends, who spoke to me, who pray for me, but i feel exhausted. Surely I am always here, but I don’t find words. Know I am grateful for each of you, know that if I have strenght now, it is also for your prayers.
    I thank you warmly, I will be here, but maybe not always with words. Accept a flower, a heart, a smile.
    With love
    Anna

    • Pilgrim

      I hold you in abundant prayer, dear Anna. Take good care of yourself, your health, your heart.

    • Ose

      Feel embraced, if I may, dear Anna, thanks for your kind presence despite feeling so exhausted. I understand. In heart and prayer with you and your family. Warmly, Ose

    • Palm

      Much love to you, your dad and family, dear Anna.

    • grateful sea

      I am here, also with few words, and with love for you Anna.

  • Diane
    Good morning lovely friends: In advance of our Tuesday prayer day, I wish you all great peace during these challenging times. We are in the process of selling our home. People are coming tomorrow to see it but today is quiet, so here I am. It has been non-stop packing, organizing, cleaning, fixing, etc. All the things you do to get ready to sell and move. In addition, there are a myriad of emotions during this process. We love our quirky little house and our beloved farmland and it ...

    Good morning lovely friends:

    In advance of our Tuesday prayer day, I wish you all great peace during these challenging times.

    We are in the process of selling our home. People are coming tomorrow to see it but today is quiet, so here I am.

    It has been non-stop packing, organizing, cleaning, fixing, etc. All the things you do to get ready to sell and move. In addition, there are a myriad of emotions during this process. We love our quirky little house and our beloved farmland and it will be hard to leave it behind. But our daughters are 2,000 miles away and we are getting older by the day!
    We have heard that houses are selling like crazy right now due to Covid. People wanting to get out of the crowded cities and suburbs to move out into the country. This is an experiment of sorts to see if we can get a better price than we would have in the spring, which was our original moving target date.
    We will see. And in the meantime, I am grateful that I have the time to do what needs to be done…I am not working at all, not wanting to go back into the schools. So this keeps me busy and my mind occupied.
    My sister continues to struggle with her health and with some obvious mental health issues. I feel powerless to help her and it breaks my heart to see someone I love be so self-destructive. She has not ever, and is not now, taking care of herself or attempting to heal her wounded relationships. I am grateful to my nieces for all they are doing to try to help her and I appreciate all the love, support and prayers you have given. Thank you friends….from my heart to yours. ♥♥

    ~With grateful love

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    • grateful sea

      💚 🕯

    • Mica

      Dear Diane, it is wonderful to live near family, but it must be difficult to leave your beloved farmland. Thank you for sharing with us, and hugs to you –

    • Pilgrim
      Dear Diane, my heart is with you in these days of preparation to sell your beloved home and land. Reading your post brought back to me all the feelings and memories of a few years ago when I sold what had been our family home, rich with memories of raising my daughters, and moved to this comparatively small townhome. So many feelings! And yet, what is more important than family, of being nearby if possible, and opportunities for new memories. I will be holding you and your husband in much pray...

      Dear Diane, my heart is with you in these days of preparation to sell your beloved home and land. Reading your post brought back to me all the feelings and memories of a few years ago when I sold what had been our family home, rich with memories of raising my daughters, and moved to this comparatively small townhome. So many feelings! And yet, what is more important than family, of being nearby if possible, and opportunities for new memories.
      I will be holding you and your husband in much prayer throughout this process and all that it holds/offers. I wish you blessings of light, hope, and trust as you enter this particular part of your journey. Do keep us posted, my dear friend. Prayers of hope for your sister in her struggles.

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    • Palm

      Dear Diane, you are so brave. I imagine how difficult it must be to pack and let go of a farmhouse. It has been a long process for me to let go of a small flat. I feel your company knowing we are going through the same experience. I hope it all goes well with the viewings and that you get the price you want. The best prize will be to be close to your daughters. I also continue to pray for your sister.

  • Ms. Awesome
    Good morning God Bless you all and thanks for your replies to my post I have been away again for some days asI have not been well but The Lord woke me up and I am truly grateful and felt the desire to relate this morning . I do keep a journal in fact three I write to Father God daily and to my daughter and ask her to pray for me!The third is to me myself as I start out my day I end at night and I have been having this dryness like Mother Teresa felt ??? I used to have an hour of power prayer to ...

    Good morning God Bless you all and thanks for your replies to my post I have been away again for some days asI have not been well but The Lord woke me up and I am truly grateful and felt the desire to relate this morning . I do keep a journal in fact three I write to Father God daily and to my daughter and ask her to pray for me!The third is to me myself as I start out my day I end at night and I have been having this dryness like Mother Teresa felt ??? I used to have an hour of power prayer to Our Blessed Lord for years when I put my feet on the floor it was Jesus I spoke to first! I don’t feel that daily as I used to!!it is weighing me down and I was a daily Mass attendant and did three hours of devotion a week before theBlessed Sacrament but can’t go to either due to this virus thus it makes me so depressed please pray for me as we pray for each other and obey God as God is in charge !! Please have a blessed day and be safe much Love Dee

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    • Sunflower

      A peaceful day to you, dear Dee, my prayers are with you. Wishing you a relaxed day with sunrise inside out and His Love always, warmly, Sunflower

    • grateful sea

      Dear Dee, just a friendly hello. We are all in this together and I will keep you in my prayers.

    • Diane

      So glad you are with us Dee. We are all doing the best we can during these challenging times. Please extend grace to yourself and trust that God extends it to you each day….no matter.

      “The favors of the Lord are not exhausted,
      His mercies are not spent;
      They are renewed each morning, so great is his faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23

      ~Blessings ♥

  • Sunflower
    Dear Anna, thinking of you and your dad and hope you may be able to cope and that your brother is well again. Please know that you and your father are in my prayers every day. Dear Diane, even if I was unable to share since a while, please feel all my heart being with you and with your dear sister and her daughters. You and your family are in my prayers daily, too. Dear grateful sea, may your father be guided in His Light and Love while it seems he approaches the threshold. I am so happy that yo...

    Dear Anna, thinking of you and your dad and hope you may be able to cope and that your brother is well again. Please know that you and your father are in my prayers every day. Dear Diane, even if I was unable to share since a while, please feel all my heart being with you and with your dear sister and her daughters. You and your family are in my prayers daily, too. Dear grateful sea, may your father be guided in His Light and Love while it seems he approaches the threshold. I am so happy that you shared some of yours again. Dear Dee, may His sun shine into your heart and warm you and may your grief be consoled. My prayers are with you every morning. I too pray for lioness and the kids of her sister to be warmly embraced in His Love. May you have received some answers or will in due time, and may your pain be eased. Dear Palm, I hope your daughter is doing well. May the flow of creativity run through and into her designs. May also the ones I did not name explicitly who come to share and who visit here are embraced in His eternal Love. Blessings be with all of you.

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    • grateful sea

      Dear Sunflower, thank you. Blessings be with you.

    • Palm

      Dear Sunflower, thank you. It warms my heart to come here on this prayer Tuesday and find your beautiful prayer.
      My daughter is doing well, she seems to have an infinite supply for excitement and happiness, some times it’s exhausting for us but I am grateful that it is like that. Here is one of her recent drawings.
      I pray that all is well with you.

      • Sunflower

        Thank you so much for this heartwarming drawing of your daughter! It has made my day! So much of beauty and balance. What a lovely artist´s heart she owes! Blessings be with you, your daughter and all your family. Thank you for your patience, dear Palm. With love, Sunflower

        • Palm

          Thank you! Love to you, dear Sunflower ❤️🌼

      • grateful sea

        Palm 💚 I can’t tell you how much I love your daughter’s drawing. As Ose has said, it lights up my day.

      • Ose

        Just beautiful, dear Palm. When I started the day just right now, sitting on my cozy sofa, savouring the first delicious cup of coffee, it was pure delight to see your post and the drawing. Your daughter´s drawing so touching, full of lightness and joy! Have a blessed day, you and your daughter! Warm greetings to both of you.

        • Palm

          Dear Ose, thank you, your message lit up my day too. I am now relaxing in bed and so grateful to visit here and write to you. Warm greetings and a peaceful night to you.

    • Diane

      Lovely Sunflower…..thank you so much for your kindness and I do feel your heart! The drama continues with my sister, physically and with her relationship with my nieces. It breaks my heart and I have to continually turn my concerns over to God. I’m learning, once again, that I cannot fix this situation….I’m worn out from trying and I need to get out of God’s way.

      We never stop growing and learning!

      ~With my grateful love ♥

  • Ms. Awesome
    Today I am returning to this site as I have been away for awhile just. opening to light a candle etc I have been a member for awhile but I am so grateful for this site it is so inspirational I am going through a real tough time as on October 8 2019 I lost my daughter and it was sudden she was not sick she was my caretaker and I was the one with problems and we were joined at the. Hip per se she was only 58 and we had just celebrated her birthday on July 9 and my birthday on September 26 !! she s...

    Today I am returning to this site as I have been away for awhile just. opening to light a candle etc I have been a member for awhile but I am so grateful for this site it is so inspirational I am going through a real tough time as on October 8 2019 I lost my daughter and it was sudden she was not sick she was my caretaker and I was the one with problems and we were joined at the. Hip per se she was only 58 and we had just celebrated her birthday on July 9 and my birthday on September 26 !! she spent the last two weeks of her life going to work as a nurse and then coming to my home to see about me often most times staying with me she spent the last Thursday night at my home and then on that Friday which was her last Friday we went on errands me and her only all day and into the night eating drinking and just being together and she brought me home as she had. To work that weekend so we just spoke on the phone She was to pick me up for a celebration of her grandson and my great grandson birthday well she was having coughing spells as my grandson woke up to !!!! She had breathing problems and paramedics took 20 minutes to come and they worked on her got her to hospital they worked on her she came back several times bu then went to Our Father in heaven it has been so so hard as she was my first child I have five children four left three males and one female ! I am under psychiatric help now but it has been a year and we celebrated her anniversary with having a family dinner but it is hard now I have a husband who is not well but refuses to do what the doctor tells him and I have tried to help but I have a heart condition and not well myself and I have resigned myself to taking care of me. I need prayers as I have this period of dryness in my prayers and feel so alone !! Thus this site return ! Am trying through this site to return to my prayer schedule ! I feel the evil one all around and try to pray each time I feel alone and I am so so angry with God as to why this is happening to me please pray for me and please if you have any solution/suggestions please let me know Dee

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    • Diane
      Dear Dee.....we are glad that you found your way back to this sacred community. I want to extend my comfort to you by telling you that we all experience times of spiritual dryness. And even anger with the Divine. Be assured that, no matter....God's light still surrounds you and His love still enfolds you. I pray that you will feel His Presence and know that you are Loved eternally and unconditionally. I want to encourage you to be gentle and kind to yourself, to continue to practice self-car...

      Dear Dee…..we are glad that you found your way back to this sacred community. I want to extend my comfort to you by telling you that we all experience times of spiritual dryness. And even anger with the Divine. Be assured that, no matter….God’s light still surrounds you and His love still enfolds you. I pray that you will feel His Presence and know that you are Loved eternally and unconditionally. I want to encourage you to be gentle and kind to yourself, to continue to practice self-care in whatever ways speak to you, and to honor your feelings, whatever they may be.

      You asked for suggestions…..I wonder if keeping a journal would help. Sometimes writing things down, without censoring yourself, just being completely honest helps to bring some measure of peace. Perhaps start this process by reminding yourself, in writing, that you are Loved just the way you are at any given moment. I have always found comfort in reading Psalm 139…a reminder of God’s Presence always and that I am “fearfully and wonderfully made”.

      I am remembering you and your husband in prayer and hope that you can find the peace that is buried deep in your heart.

      ~Om Shanti shanti….peace, peace. ♥

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    • Ose

      Dear Dee, my prayers are with you and your husband also. May your soul find some peace, may His love and light be with you and heal. Warmly, Ose

    • grateful sea

      Dear Dee, I remember you, welcome back. Blessings from my heart to you and your family.

    • Palm

      Dear Dee, it’s good to see you again. My prayers are with you and your husband, for healing, comfort, support, company and love. Blessings to you both

  • Palm

    Blessings on this prayer Tuesday. Particularly thinking of you and your dad, dear Anna 🙏🏻💕

    • grateful sea

      Thank you dear Palm. Blessings to you and your family. Blessings to Anna, her Dad and family. Blessings to Diane, her sister, and family. I wanted to write this yesterday, but felt it was not enough. Today, I trust that because it is from my heart, it is enough. Blessings to Dee and her family. Blessings to all who visit here, seen and unseen. Blessings to all.

      • Diane

        Dear grateful sea….your blessings, which so clearly come from your kind heart, are always enough my friend.

        ~With my grateful love ♥

      • Palm

        Thank you, dear grateful sea, and blessings to you. I also had my doubts before posting, as I hadn’t written for a while. Now, I am grateful to be here with you and everyone.

        • Ose

          And so am I, dear Palm, grateful to be here with you and each one sharing here. Thank you for posting, dear friend. It has helped me to come out of a kind of stuck and somehow fearful condition 🙏

          • Palm

            Dear Ose, it’s good to see you. It’s a challenging time for many, and you have had a lot in your heart. Sending gentle, loving thoughts your way, dear friend.

        • grateful sea

          A big hug to you and your daughter

        • grateful sea

          💚 Kristy’s grateful breathing practice helped me remember

    • Anna
      Dear Palm! You can’t imagine how grateful I feel for your post! My father’s health is very bad, he is suffering, he is in a terminal condition. Such tumultuous days, dear Palm, the last 15 days, taking him for radiotherapy. He needs a wheelchair, the two of us taking him to the hospital, my sisters, me, my children, my nephews, my husband and my brother-in-law have been engaged in this task, while trying to take care of him, my mother, our chores, our jobs or studies. we were exhausted, seei...

      Dear Palm! You can’t imagine how grateful I feel for your post!
      My father’s health is very bad, he is suffering, he is in a terminal condition. Such tumultuous days, dear Palm, the last 15 days, taking him for radiotherapy. He needs a wheelchair, the two of us taking him to the hospital, my sisters, me, my children, my nephews, my husband and my brother-in-law have been engaged in this task, while trying to take care of him, my mother, our chores, our jobs or studies.
      we were exhausted, seeing the suffering, that nothing would have going better, apart from the pain (radiotherapy was an analgesic therapy)
      now I’m lying on my couch, my place to rest, with my iPad to meet you all, here.
      Palm, and it is so paradoxical to see and enjoy a wonderful sky outside, incredible colors of falling leaves, feeling gratitude for all my friends and relatives who call and support me.
      I’m really tired, but I’m not alone.
      Many things appear in a different light, spirituality is a balm, even if I cannot fully embrace its original form, that of my childhood, because I do not want to see sign of bigotry, and I love to turn my rituals into a new sacred space , where God is only pure love, life, peace, acceptance, tenderness.
      I did not write until now for this great tiredness, I feel a great love for everyone here, I am here everyday, with you, and everyone is a grace.
      may you be blessed Palm, and a big hug to your daughter.

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      • Diane

        Cara Anna….you have a beautiful heart my friend. I am so grateful to you for sharing it with us. Your words have touched my heart.
        I am holding you, your papa, and your whole family close in prayer. Sending you love and light….please rest when you can.
        ~Abbondanti benedizioni mia amica 🙏💙

        • Anna

          Grazie cara Diane.
          Anche a te tutte le più care benedizioni.
          Un abbraccio. Feel embraced. 🌼🌼

      • grateful sea

        Dear Anna, with my heart I am sending much love to you, your father, your whole family in these tumultuous days. From grateful sea ⚓️ (no need to reply, just wanting you to know)

      • Palm
        Dear Anna, I am sending much love to you and your family. I pray for comfort, especially for your dad. As you say, life is hard and beautiful at the same time. It must be particularly hard at this moment. My parents told me they have just reinstated lockdown in Italy. Thank you for sharing your gratefulness, I am in owe. I am grateful that your new spiritual path is comforting and I understand what you mean, it was similar for me. I happened to enter a church last Sunday. I felt a bit embarr...

        Dear Anna, I am sending much love to you and your family. I pray for comfort, especially for your dad. As you say, life is hard and beautiful at the same time.
        It must be particularly hard at this moment. My parents told me they have just reinstated lockdown in Italy.
        Thank you for sharing your gratefulness, I am in owe. I am grateful that your new spiritual path is comforting and I understand what you mean, it was similar for me. I happened to enter a church last Sunday. I felt a bit embarrassed to leave as the sermon started, but I felt the same heaviness I used to feel when I was a child. For now, my spiritual path is to keep relearning to follow these internal prompts. And to keep the love, something I learn from you.
        Thank you, Anna. I feel your warm embrace, I’ll tell my daughter. May you be blessed too, dear friend.

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  • reality
    I'm grateful for the words of the day on this site; including this one: ""For us to transform as a society, we have to allow ourselves to be transformed as individuals. And for us to be transformed…we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings." ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS". The whole and all of it's parts are simply not true. Good Diwali. Thanx to Güray Dere for one-time use of his photo, 'Sunflowers', above. Thanx for al...

    I’m grateful for the words of the day on this site; including this one: “”For us to transform as a society, we have to allow ourselves to be transformed as individuals. And for us to be transformed…we have to allow for the incompleteness of any of our truths and a real forgiveness for the complexity of human beings.”
    ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS”. The whole and all of it’s parts are simply not true. Good Diwali. Thanx to Güray Dere for one-time use of his photo, ‘Sunflowers’, above. Thanx for all you All do and have a great day 🙂 reality

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  • Palm
    I would like to share this text from Louise Hays’ Morning Meditation. It has helped me to let go and put things in Gods hands: ”The best thing we can do for our body is to feed it natural foods and beverages, to exercise it in ways that are a pleasure to us and to allow the intelligence in the body to take care of all the rest. So it is with our lives. We think positive, loving thoughts, we forgive others, we are kind to ourselves mentally, and then we allow the intelligence of the universe...

    I would like to share this text from Louise Hays’ Morning Meditation. It has helped me to let go and put things in Gods hands:
    ”The best thing we can do for our body is to feed it natural foods and beverages, to exercise it in ways that are a pleasure to us and to allow the intelligence in the body to take care of all the rest. So it is with our lives. We think positive, loving thoughts, we forgive others, we are kind to ourselves mentally, and then we allow the intelligence of the universe to take over and create that which is for our highest good and greatest joy.”

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    • grateful sea

      💚always

      • Ose

        Such a joy to see you here again, dear grateful sea! 😊We have been missing you a huge lot! A warm welcome back, dear friend. Hope you and your parents are well. With a warm embrace, if I may, and heartfelt greetings to you.

        • grateful sea

          Dearest Ose, I feel the deep warmth of your greeting and send back the same. Thank you for your well wishes. My father is receiving home hospice (end of life) care now. I wish peace to you this night, my friend, and a beautiful morning.

          • Palm

            Dear grateful sea, I just saw this (that your dad is receiving home hospice care). I am grateful that he is being cared for and that your mom is getting help. Also, my heart is with you ❤️ and I am sending you a big hug, from Palm.

          • Ose

            Thank you, dear grateful sea, for your kind reply. You and your father will be in my prayers. Blessings to you and your Dad and all your family.

      • Palm

        Grateful sea ! ❤️

    • Diane

      Dear Palm….thank you for sharing this morning meditation. It is nourishment for my body and soul…and a reminder of something I read recently. It is a sweet little prayer: “Lord, I’ll do the pedaling and You do the steering”. As we organize and pack up our home, this letting go is exactly what I need! Faith with feet! 🙏

      ~With grateful love ♥

  • Diane
    Good morning lovely gratitude lounge friends It is Thursday morning here and I have missed a few Tuesdays with you but each time I visit, no matter the day, I am reminded of the love of our dear Ursula. We miss you dear friend...but know that your light continues to shine for us. 🕯 My sister's health continues to be a challenge. I just now called her to find that she was with her visiting physical therapist and I am so grateful to hear that she is getting some of the help she needs. ...

    Good morning lovely gratitude lounge friends

    It is Thursday morning here and I have missed a few Tuesdays with you but each time I visit, no matter the day, I am reminded of the love of our dear Ursula. We miss you dear friend…but know that your light continues to shine for us. 🕯

    My sister’s health continues to be a challenge. I just now called her to find that she was with her visiting physical therapist and I am so grateful to hear that she is getting some of the help she needs. I’m not sure if she is being consistent with her dialysis….she is unfortunately not forthcoming about many aspects of her health.
    I continue to turn my worries over to God, knowing that He is as near as her next breath…I am grateful to have that certainty.

    I am grateful for our plans to move to Colorado for the final chapter of our life journey. We have put our house on the market for sale! Our original plan was for Spring 2021 but we decided to move up our timeline for a variety of reasons. I am trusting that all will unfold as it should and in God’s time. We were guided to a wonderful realtor and we are hopeful about the pricing and that houses out here in farm country are selling like hotcakes! This is because of Covid…people wanting to get out of the crowded cities.
    The thought of being with our daughters sooner fills me with joy, despite the uncertainties and the hard work of preparing to move. But I am not working right now and so have the time to organize and pack.. There is much work to be done and my husband has a full workload at his job and also threw out his back…so I am grateful to have this time available. As much as I loved working at the schools, I know it was the right choice not to go back right now.

    I’m reminded that silver linings are present amidst the challenges and uncertainty of these times. Recently I came across a picture that I had taken with my phone….it was a “Word of The Day” from this site back on December 22nd, 2018!! I took a picture of the screen and then forwarded to my daughters. It is serendipity that I still had it on my phone and ran across it: Sharing with all of you now with my grateful love ♥

    “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars” Og Mandino

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    • grateful sea

      🕯always

    • Palm

      Dear Diane, like Pilgrim, I am also lifted to see you here. Thank you for sharing what you know about your sister, I am glad to hear she is receiving help.
      I am happy for you and your family for taking the step of putting your home in the market. Not an easy one, but it sounds positive and I am inspired. We have just sold our flat, so I can relate to the uncertainty you write about. I love the words by Og Mandino too. Thank you, my friend, I will be thinking of you.

      • Diane

        Dear Palm…..I am so grateful for your kindness. As you have just experienced, this is indeed a time of uncertainty but we are holding firm to our faith that our house will sell according to God’s plan.

        ~Love and blessings ♥

    • Pilgrim
      Dear Diane, my heart lifted to find you here today! You have been carrying a great deal in your heart throughout many weeks. I am happy for you to have come to clarity in deciding to move to Colorado to be near your daughters and their families. Such choices take much discernment, and you sound as if you have done that work, conversation, prayer. I suspect your home and land will sell in good time. Houses around here and in many places are moving quickly! I will hold you and all that you hold...

      Dear Diane, my heart lifted to find you here today! You have been carrying a great deal in your heart throughout many weeks. I am happy for you to have come to clarity in deciding to move to Colorado to be near your daughters and their families. Such choices take much discernment, and you sound as if you have done that work, conversation, prayer. I suspect your home and land will sell in good time. Houses around here and in many places are moving quickly!

      I will hold you and all that you hold in my heart and prayers in the days ahead. Many blessings … please keep us posted!

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      • Diane

        Dear Pilgrim….I am so grateful for your support and prayers my friend. They mean so much to me always ♥

        ~Love and blessings

  • Mica

    Dark is good!!!

  • Serafina
    An invitation to our Wake Up to Perspective practice: As we navigate our individual struggles alongside the collective challenges of political strife, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis — what role does gratefulness play? What is possible when we allow ourselves to lean into the practice of grateful living no matter the circumstances?  We invite you to join us for a free seven-day exploration of such questions as we live into the final weeks of an extraordinary and weighty ye...

    An invitation to our Wake Up to Perspective practice:

    As we navigate our individual struggles alongside the collective challenges of political strife, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the climate crisis — what role does gratefulness play? What is possible when we allow ourselves to lean into the practice of grateful living no matter the circumstances?

     We invite you to join us for a free seven-day exploration of such questions as we live into the final weeks of an extraordinary and weighty year. While it’s true that we’re bound together in struggle, we are also bound to one another in our capacity for resilience, wonder, courage, and gratitude.

    Learn more and sign up here https://gratefulness.org/blog/wake-up-to-perspective-a-practice-invitation  

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  • Drew Blanton

    We;re having some house showings to prepare to move to Greenville, South Carolina. I’ll be a state north from my home state.

  • Riptide Thorner

    On a much brighter note or wait how was it dark so far? I am super grateful to have started volunteering at a real animal sanctuary even if I have to cycle further than I ever have to get there. The woman running it is a very nice lady and seems happy I started as they might not have much help.

    It exhilarates me for some reason in a way my job does not but I am working on that when I can.

    I hope you are doing well in your own grateful lives.

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