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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.

  • Mica

    I’m grateful for the fresh spinach now – everyone buys it so fast that it hasn’t been sitting around getting old and wilted by the time I buy it.

  • cp

    Another tuesday, another reason to be grateful to all of you remembering “prayer tuesday” and Ursi …
    I hope this finds you all well in these difficult times. Things can only get better, can’t they? Let us believe they will – soon, hopefully. Our thoughts become things … so let’s do it!

    • Diane

      Dear cp…..what a beautiful gift you have given us. We all do have beautiful memories of Ursula as a keepsake.
      My sister heart is sending love to your heart. Thank you for being here with us.
      ~With grateful love ♥

    • Pilgrim

      Dear CP, I’m glad I came back here later in the day and to find you here. Ursi was in my thoughts today. I appreciate your hopeful words in the midst of such worrisome times. May you and your family be safe and well, caring for one another and finding ways to enjoy each other’s company.

    • Anna
      Yes Cp, things can only improve. Yesterday I started my step 2. I'm afraid, I'm worried, I'm obsessed with washing my hands, sanitizing my tools, using the face mask ... I worry about other family members and my parents, but today it was better than yesterday. Hopefully in fifteen days we can be reassured that things can be ok. Let us hope for a sense of responsibility, together with an enormous gratitude for those who take care of our health, our common knowledge, our first needs, our souls. I...

      Yes Cp, things can only improve. Yesterday I started my step 2. I’m afraid, I’m worried, I’m obsessed with washing my hands, sanitizing my tools, using the face mask … I worry about other family members and my parents, but today it was better than yesterday. Hopefully in fifteen days we can be reassured that things can be ok. Let us hope for a sense of responsibility, together with an enormous gratitude for those who take care of our health, our common knowledge, our first needs, our souls.
      I wish the best for you and your family, dear cp!

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      • Pilgrim

        Dear Anna, I resonate with what you say. I have been a bit of a germaphobe since I was extremely ill several years ago, so this has made this stronger. I, too, am always washing my hands! The U.S. has what feels like a jumble of messaging, maybe due to its size. And the politics. We will keep each other, our families and friends, those on the front lines of essential services, and those suffering, in prayer. Bless us all!

  • Palm
    Dear friends, dear Patjos, your words describe my prayer too, sitting and feeling “all that weighs me down, all faults, soul-bared “ thank you. I have been relieved from work. It’s hard, but I use the word relief because that is what I feel after so many years of work uncertainty and clinging. I can now look forward to oportunities, I can be with my girl, who needs me. I am grateful that, if needed, I have financial support from family, please don’t worry. I feel scared and excited and ...

    Dear friends, dear Patjos, your words describe my prayer too, sitting and feeling “all that weighs me down, all faults, soul-bared “ thank you.
    I have been relieved from work. It’s hard, but I use the word relief because that is what I feel after so many years of work uncertainty and clinging. I can now look forward to oportunities, I can be with my girl, who needs me. I am grateful that, if needed, I have financial support from family, please don’t worry. I feel scared and excited and free. Joining in prayer today and sending love to all <3

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    • Diane

      Dear Palm….it is a gift that you are feeling relief at this big change in your life. And a blessing to have more time with family and support from them. I am inspired by your positive outlook and wish you all the peace and serenity your heart can hold. And as Anna has asked, please do let us know how you are doing in the days ahead.
      ~Blessings ♥

      • Palm

        Diane, thank you â¤ï¸ I am inspired too when I read your thoughts about moving and change, and God having a plan for us. I wish you a move as seamless as possible. I love the idea about you being shipped to Colorado first! 😊
        I have been wanting to work from home for a while now. A friend once said to me: “if you don’t do the change, life will take care of itâ€.
        Thank you, dear friend, I will stay in touch. Love and blessings.

    • Anna

      Oh no, Palm!
      I am so sorry to hear ithat even if I bow to you for your positivity …
      A challenging time and a hard personal circumstance … I join all our friends here, I only feel the will to embrace you. Yes, we can, a virtual hug is an allowed form of social proximity. Dear Palm! Let us know how you are in the next few days.
      With love.

      • Palm

        Anna, thank you, I feel your comforting and I embrace you too, yes, thankfully we have these electronic means to do that 🙂 I am glad to hear that it’s now stage 2 in Italy (my parents hadn’t told me the level). Praying that things keep improving, and as you say, for a sense of responsibility. We are at level 4 here, but it seems similar, a lot of shops reopened from this month. Yes, I want to visit here soon. Sending love.

    • cp

      Dear Palm, that must be a tough situation for you … I’m sorry to hear that! But as you write, it is also an opportunity. There ist always something good in the “bad”. Life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards, people say. It seems to me you are starting to understand already 😉 Stay positive! Wishing you all the best … CP

      • Palm

        Thank you, dear cp, I am happy to see you today 🙂 and I like that saying “living forwards”, it encourages me, thank you and blessings, friend <3

    • grateful sea

      Oh, Palm… â¤ï¸… How difficult. I don’t know what to say but that I send my love and blessings, dear friend. A hug to you and your daughter (Palmetto) from grateful sea.

      • Palm

        Dear grateful sea <3 🙂 you help me a lot, just seeing you today and making me smile ! I send love, blessings and a big hug to you, from Palm.

    • Pilgrim

      Dear Palm, amidst the life changes throughout the world right now, a new and very significant change in your life is a lot to deal with! Your outlook of hope is a gift at such a time. May grace and love surround you as you step into your new reality in the days ahead.

      • Palm

        And your wise words are also a gift, dear Pilgrim. Thank you

    • Patjos

      Your words bring to my mind ‘rollercoaster ride’ something which I heard someone say to me quite often when I first discovered Grace. And yes, it’s been and is, truly a rollercoaster ride this life! Scary and exciting and somehow safe. Yes. 🙂

      • Palm

        The analogy you share gives me joy, thank you 🙂 I am sure the stories about the time you discovered Grace are wonderful.

  • Patjos

    How do these things happen?
    This morning I found a message in my inbox which I posted below, regarding the words of Julian of Norwich. This evening after an online meditation I checked in with Shawn Gallaways youtube channel only to find that he had posted a new song just 2 days ago called ‘All shall be well’
    Do have a listen, it’s sure to bring a smile to your face. 🙂

    • Pilgrim

      Thank you for this, Patjos. I’ve been enjoying Some Good News on you tube. Be well, friend.

  • Patjos
    I've not been feeling like having too much of an online presence lately, but found the following in my inbox today and thought that I might share it with you here. "Perhaps we are finding it hard to pray right now ... These words of Mother Julian of Norwich offer encouragement: “Our Beloved is exceedingly glad and happy about our prayer. He watches for it and yearns to receive it, for our prayer, through his grace, makes us like him. It is his blessed will that we be like him, not only ...

    I’ve not been feeling like having too much of an online presence lately, but found the following in my inbox today and thought that I might share it with you here.

    “Perhaps we are finding it hard to pray right now … These words of Mother Julian of Norwich offer encouragement:

    “Our Beloved is exceedingly glad and happy about our prayer. He watches for it and yearns to receive it, for our prayer, through his grace, makes us like him. It is his blessed will that we be like him, not only in our nature (which we already are and always have been), but also in our will. That is why he says, “Pray inwardly, even if it seems to give no pleasure. It is bringing great benefit, even if you don’t perceive it. Pray inwardly, even if you sense nothing, see nothing, even if you think you are achieving nothing. For it is in dryness and emptiness, in sickness and weakness, that your prayer pleases me most. Don’t you see? Your whole life is a prayer in my eyesâ€. (‘The Showings of Julian of Norwich’ chap 41, translated by Mirabai Starr)

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    • Diane
      Patjos...thank you so much for sharing this. I often go to a beautiful quote by Julian of Norwich: "all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." I use it as a mantra as needed and have shared it with my daughters and friends during uncertain or anxious times. Before coronavirus! And now it seems even more needed! Lately I've been focused on silence and prayer during my meditations. This quote that you shared affirms what I have been learning about p...

      Patjos…thank you so much for sharing this. I often go to a beautiful quote by Julian of Norwich: “all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” I use it as a mantra as needed and have shared it with my daughters and friends during uncertain or anxious times. Before coronavirus! And now it seems even more needed!

      Lately I’ve been focused on silence and prayer during my meditations. This quote that you shared affirms what I have been learning about prayer. I’m reading a little book on prayer by my “guru” Henri Nouwen. It’s called “With Open Hands”. This is what I read just this morning:
      “Prayer creates that openness in which God is given to us. Indeed, God wants to be admitted into the human heart, received with open hands, and loved with the same love with which we have been created.” Remembering this helps me when my prayers are seemingly dry and empty as Julian describes.

      ~Have a beautiful day my friend ♥

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      • Patjos

        Dear Diane, please see my later post above! 🙂

      • Patjos
        That's so lovely Diane. A couple of times lately I've just had to let go of meditation, let go of 'practice' and just sit there in the 'everything-ness' that's all around me/us. (I know I could use the word Universe, but 'everything-ness seems to me to be more substantial somehow!). Just sitting there in the everything-ness just as I am, just with all that I cary, all that weighs me down, all faults, soul-bared.And isn't that too a great prayer? And when we pray with words it bemefits our ear...

        That’s so lovely Diane. A couple of times lately I’ve just had to let go of meditation, let go of ‘practice’ and just sit there in the ‘everything-ness’ that’s all around me/us. (I know I could use the word Universe, but ‘everything-ness seems to me to be more substantial somehow!). Just sitting there in the everything-ness just as I am, just with all that I cary, all that weighs me down, all faults, soul-bared.And isn’t that too a great prayer? And when we pray with words it bemefits our ears and when we pray with doing, with action it benefits our heart,but God is in all of that prayer whether spoken or unspoken. Love listens whether we choose (or not choose) to speak, to act, sit still, or never to stop to consider not even for a moment. Love always hears.
        Thanks for bringing this out from inside of me Diane. 🙂

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        • Pilgrim

          “Love always hears.” Yes, indeed, Patjos, and thank you for the reminder. It brings peace to my heart. Be well, my friend.

  • Maryke

    Today I am thankful that we were able to give around 500 people a meal for the day. I took some pictures that just broke my heart. I realized that I have so much to be thankful for.

    • Diane

      These pictures speak so loudly without words. God bless you for all that you do friend ♥

    • reality

      Thanx, amen 🙂 reality

    • Pilgrim

      Maryke. Thank you.

    • Anna

      Maryke, first of all, I’m so happy to see you again.
      Thank you for reminding us of the true face of poverty. Sometimes I feel guilty because this isolation, this social distancing is a luxury that only people who are economically comfortable can afford.
      Thank you for what you do.

    • Ose

      Dear Maryke, it is just great that you offer a meal for all these poor people who have to live in such heartbreaking conditions, not even having access to the most basic needs like food and water. Yes, your shattering photos bring to mind and heart that I also have so much to be thankful for. I bow to you for what you do. Thank you, dear friend. May you be blessed in all what you are and all what you do.

  • Mica

    Thank you, gratefulness people for introducing me to Joan Halifax, another wise woman, in your quote of the day

    • Saoirse

      You’re so welcome, Mica! It is a pleasure to discover and share insights from wise ones from a wide range of perspectives and eras. I’m glad to hear you are, now and again, inspired to explore the source further. Lovely — thanks!

  • Drew Blanton

    This is my favorite Selena song.

  • Mica

    When gratitude is the ground on which we stand, we can be satisfied with life exactly as it is and relax into the unknown.
    SAGE COHEN

    A beautiful quote by another wise woman, previously unknown to me – thank you, gratefulness people!

  • Diane
    Good morning lovely friends I had my meditations on silence this morning. One of my "gurus" Henri Nouwen, speaks of the sacredness of silence and how we often run away from it because in the silence we can be faced with uncomfortable or painful emotions. But this sometimes arduous journey towards inner silence is worth it because it brings with it a glorious peace with yourself in all your humanity. Remembering Rumi's poem "The Guest House" helped me to welcome in all the feelings and emo...

    Good morning lovely friends

    I had my meditations on silence this morning. One of my “gurus” Henri Nouwen, speaks of the sacredness of silence and how we often run away from it because in the silence we can be faced with uncomfortable or painful emotions. But this sometimes arduous journey towards inner silence is worth it because it brings with it
    a glorious peace with yourself in all your humanity. Remembering Rumi’s poem “The Guest House” helped me to welcome in all the feelings and emotions with cleansing tears.

    I am grateful for these days of isolation, quiet and solitude and am hopeful that through this time I will make some progress on my spiritual journey. I am grateful to be able to sit quietly in a lovely sunbeam this morning after a wild, windy, grey, rainy day yesterday!
    We lost power in our area for several hours….oh, the joy and gratitude when the lights came back on and I could cook our (very late) dinner! I am so grateful that, although trees were down all over our area, all the trees on our property are still standing tall today! The birds are back at the feeders and I can venture outside to visit with the horses and cows and feel the sun and soft breezes we have been gifted with this new day. 🌞🌳ðŸ¦

    ~Have a peace-filled day friends. With grateful love ♥

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    • Kevin

      Beautiful, Diane, thank you. Year’s ago, and speaking of silence, a young client made me a piece of art as a gift, which I photographed to share with you here. Enjoy.

      • Diane

        What a wonderful gift….thank you for sharing it Kevin. Sitting under a tree is one of my favorite quiet places. ~Be well friend ♥

  • Drew Blanton

    I think my seizures are over.

    • reality

      Glad to hear that Drew, may the light that you bless the world with shine forth within you ever more and evermore. Blessings abound 🙂 reality

    • Diane

      Dear Drew…..that is great news! Thank you for sharing it with us. I am saying a special prayer ðŸ™

    • Pilgrim

      Wow, Drew, that would be wonderful!

  • Saoirse
    Hello Friends, We are touched by the warmth and support you share here in the Gratitude Lounge and want to thank you for being here. May you remain safe, well, and connected during these uncertain times. We thought you might like to know that we've updated our introductory page, "New to Grateful Living?" in the event you are looking for something comprehensive and easy to share with others who may be interested in this orientation to life. Here is the URL: https://gratefulness.org/explor...

    Hello Friends,

    We are touched by the warmth and support you share here in the Gratitude Lounge and want to thank you for being here. May you remain safe, well, and connected during these uncertain times.

    We thought you might like to know that we’ve updated our introductory page, “New to Grateful Living?” in the event you are looking for something comprehensive and easy to share with others who may be interested in this orientation to life. Here is the URL: https://gratefulness.org/explore/ (it also appears under “Explore” in the upper left hand corner of the site). With warmth and all well wishes to you all, Saoirse

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    • Kevin

      Thanks, Saoirse, this will be helpful to share with others for sure. Much better than just sharing the Gratefulness home page url when a friend asks, “what’s Gratefulness.org about?”

    • Diane

      Thank you for letting us know Saoirse…and for all that you do!
      ~With grateful love ♥

  • Diane
    Good morning lovely friends My connection to Teresa of Avila continues to deepen. Yesterday I received in the mail a book that I had ordered from a local independent bookstore....in an effort to support them during this challenging time, but also to learn more about this mystical saint. One of my favorite authors, Mirabai Starr spent many years translating Teresa's classic "The Interior Castle" from Spanish to English. She also wrote a lovely little devotional prayer book called "Saint Ter...

    Good morning lovely friends

    My connection to Teresa of Avila continues to deepen. Yesterday I received in the mail a book that I had ordered from a local independent bookstore….in an effort to support them during this challenging time, but also to learn more about this mystical saint.
    One of my favorite authors, Mirabai Starr spent many years translating Teresa’s classic “The Interior Castle” from Spanish to English. She also wrote a lovely little devotional prayer book called “Saint Teresa of Avila: Passionate Mystic” that can be used daily for contemplation. I am so happy to have this and feel that I will be using it over and over again…it is just filled with treasure!

    Cara Anna….I continue to listen to the Taize you posted almost every day. It is so beautiful and meaningful to me at this part of my journey. Grazie grazie mille amica mia. ♥

    ~Blessings ðŸ™

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    • Mica

      Diane – an American woman swami told me that delicious food was once served to Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. John moaned about the number of hungry people that could have been fed, but Teresa rejoiced and was grateful.

      • Diane

        Mica….thank you for sharing. From what I’ve been reading and learning, that sounds exactly like her! Made me smile 😊
        ~Blessings ♥

    • Anna

      Grazie a te, per la tua amicizia!
      Thanks to you, for your friendship!
      I will seek for informations about Mirabai Starr. I am curious, after reading your post, dear Diane!

      • Diane

        Anna….Mirabai is a beautiful spirit and I have several of her books. I also gave one to my youngest daughter for Christmas. You should be able to find much about her online. I love that her beliefs, worship and teachings are inter-spiritual. She finds the Divine across all religious and spiritual traditions.
        I am always so happy to introduce her to others. ðŸ™

    • Pilgrim

      Dear Diane, Teresa was ahead of her time in terms of her spirituality and outlook on the world, and a good friend of John of the Cross. A great choice for reading and contemplating! I look forward to knowing your insights from your reading, should you wish to share them. Blessings, my friend.

      • Diane

        She really was Pilgrim! I am enjoying learning more about this amazing saint I love her rebelliousness! “Passionate mystic” is a good way to describe her 🙂
        Mirabai also wrote a book about John of the Cross and that is next on my list!
        ~Blessings ♥

  • Ose
    Good evening, dear friends, who come to share and visit here, on our Tuesday prayer day. A candle is lit for dear Ursula, with a prayer for her well being in the realms beyond. Dear grateful sea, and Michele, Manda, and you, dear Sylvie, I am missing you. What can I say? I would love to hear from you, if it is convenient with you. Heartfelt greetings to you all, dear friends. I hope you don´t mind a longer post. Today I am deeply moved and I am so grateful, as something is finally healin...

    Good evening, dear friends, who come to share and visit here, on our Tuesday prayer day. A candle is lit for dear Ursula, with a prayer for her well being in the realms beyond. Dear grateful sea, and Michele, Manda, and you, dear Sylvie, I am missing you. What can I say? I would love to hear from you, if it is convenient with you. Heartfelt greetings to you all, dear friends.

    I hope you don´t mind a longer post.

    Today I am deeply moved and I am so grateful, as something is finally healing inside. I can hardly believe it myself, but it clearly feels as if finally, things are moving. Coincidentally, I just found a related text of probably Milton Erikson which explains better of what precisely is healing. It is basic trust, which appears now, of which I thought it will never be possible. And it feels so good!

    “This “basic confidence as a feeling of being able to trust … with respect as well to the credibility of the others as to the reliability of oneself” forms the platform on which the child can let himself get involved with the human and physical world and […] meet it in action, without getting overwhelmed by fear.” (ERIKSON 1966, p. 62)

    In my expressions and behavior, what might have come along as either feeling worthless, or just the opposite, of feeling kind of better than others, or the strong shyness, or repulsive attitudes towards others I realized were unconscious strategies in order to simply cover strong underlying fears which I imperatively had to avoid. My goodness… Better to avoid close contact, better be considered haughty, shy, distanced, reserved than to feel the agony of these fears. Fixed imperative, invisible fears.
    Please, let me thank you all dearly for your honest sharing here, for your incredible patience and your love, helping me so much to become aware of it. I bow to you all in deep gratefulness. I was helped and guided through having been forced to meet and face my deepest fears, without any possibility to escape any more. I was desperate, but still felt encouraged by all of you and felt guided through this deep dark tunnel by dear friends and love´s light 🙠Things really may change now. Welcome, life!! Here I am, at your service.

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    • Alicia Mary Ann Parr

      You are loved, dear Ose.

    • cp

      Thanks for the candle … I wish U. could read this. She would be so glad for you! I hope you enjoy your ride on the road to happiness! If you want to reflect on the word “positive”: it stems from the word “ponere”, which is Latin for “put” or “placed”. So everything that “is”, is “positive” in that view. Reality ist “positive”. And life is so, too. Carry on welcoming it 😉

    • grateful sea

      Dear Ose, ever since I found this site several years ago, I have been inspired by your courageous truth-seeking despite pain. I rejoice with all our friends here for your continued healing. And I am touched by your thinking of me, thank you. Sending love from grateful sea.

    • Kevin

      Grace, rising through pain, as you show here, is something I have always marveled at, Ose. Wishing you continued healing and Light.

      • Ose

        Thank you, Kevin, for your kindness and wishes. Yes, it was, and partially still is quite a painful process. Grateful for your continuous and wholehearted presence here, dear friend. May you be blessed ðŸ™

    • Diane

      Thank you for sharing so generously and courageously from your heart dear Ose. I join Anna in rejoicing with you in this new found freedom. Blessings as you continue on this healing journey ♥

      • Ose

        Thank you, dear Diane. Blessings to you.

    • Anna

      I rejoyce with you dear Ursula! A big hug. I also join you in your thought of friends we miss.
      Warmly, Anna

      • cp

        Mille grazie! I’m sure she’s still connected to you … Take care! CP

      • Ose

        A warm embrace, dear Anna. Hope you and your father and all your loved ones, are well.

    • Mica

      Love and hugs to you, Ose!

      • Ose

        Thank you, Mica. Blessings be with you.

  • Kahea

    Goodmorning gratitude friends, It’s another great day in hawaii nei. If you’re reading this count your blessings for another breath of life. I am grateful for my health & healthy sons. I am grateful for sites like these which inspire each and everyday. Thankful to have a job & income to provide for my family & friends 🙂

    • Diane

      Hello Kahea….thank you for sharing your grateful heart with us!
      ~Have a blessed day ♥

    • Aspirit

      Bless your Family, Kahea! I wish you from the Heart to always be able to keep providing for your Family! Love & Light to You!

  • Diane
    Blessed Tuesday lovely friends....as always, thinking of our dear Ursula. ♥ Brother Sun has made an appearance today after many days of rain. It was a joy to awaken to his sunbeams and I have every intention of getting outside at some point for a much-needed prayer walk. For now I am content to sit in our sun room and spend a short time with all of you. There is much to be grateful for during this sobering time. I feel a pull from the Holy Spirit to be quiet today. To let my words be f...

    Blessed Tuesday lovely friends….as always, thinking of our dear Ursula. ♥

    Brother Sun has made an appearance today after many days of rain. It was a joy to awaken to his sunbeams and I have every intention of getting outside at some point for a much-needed prayer walk. For now I am content to sit in our sun room and spend a short time with all of you.
    There is much to be grateful for during this sobering time. I feel a pull from the Holy Spirit to be quiet today. To let my words be few and to have them be “impeccable” when I do speak. (As offered in the Toltec wisdom tradition by Don Miguel Ruiz in “The Four Agreements”)
    And so…I wish you all a day filled with Holy silence as you sit with this imposed isolation. Be well. Stay safe friends.

    ~With my grateful love ♥

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    • cp

      Dear Diane, thank you so much. It seems to me when I am not here, I can rely on you and all the others, that she is not forgotten … This means a lot to me. It is always kind of a relief for me to drop in on Tuesdays, read the prayers or thought and see the lights.

  • Alicia Mary Ann Parr
    It’s an hour from Tuesday for me. But I’m here to say I hold you all in prayer. And I hold all in prayer who make it possible to eat, clean our streets, clean our hospitals and health facilities so patients and staff are as ok as possible. My nephew made a poignant point to me- to remember those available for the families of the deceased - our funeral directors and staff. And the clergy, too. Prayers for the tired parents, the tired kids, the alone , the frightened. I have hope . Iâ...

    It’s an hour from Tuesday for me.
    But I’m here to say I hold you all in prayer.
    And I hold all in prayer who make it possible to eat, clean our streets, clean our hospitals and health facilities so patients and staff are as ok as possible.
    My nephew made a poignant point to me- to remember those available for the families of the deceased – our funeral directors and staff. And the clergy, too.
    Prayers for the tired parents, the tired kids, the alone , the frightened.
    I have hope . I’m just feeling very subdued.
    I am grateful I started seedlings.
    I’m grateful for store owners who fill what I need and trust the customers because the purchases are left under a tent for pick up.
    I’m grateful for the stranger who smiled at me.
    Another week and my daughters and grands remains safe.
    Remembering Ursula…this is her Prayer Tuesday. And I believe she still prays for us. Her “ voice†stays with me.

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    • cp

      And your voice stays with her. She can hear it, I strongly believe. Tonight my smaller daughter cried when she went to sleep, thinking of U. and saying things like she wished she had been her godmother then she was a baby. I was sort of upset. But then I came here and found peace. Grateful for that.

      • Alicia Mary Ann Parr

        How dear your daughter speaks freely to you even if it can be upsetting. How blessed your daughter is she has you as you are to have her and your children.
        Thank you for the belief my voice stays with U.
        There are times I feel silenced…by circumstances.
        God bless you and all here.

    • Diane

      Good morning Alicia. Thank you for sharing your grateful heart with us. As well as your prayers for all of those who are serving so courageously and those who grieve the loss of loved ones.
      I am reminded of a new testament scripture….I looked it up:

      “Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the holy ones, exercise hospitality…..Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep” Romans 12: 12-13, 15.

      ~Blessings friend ♥

      • Aspirit

        There is a Path for Everyone on this Earth! Blessings, Love & Light to You! ♥ ♥ ♥

        • Diane

          Love and Light to you as well Aspirit. ♥🕯

    • Pilgrim

      Dear Alicia, I am so happy to find you here as I wake up this Tuesday morning. I join you in you thoughts and prayers for all of those named, many of whom are not thought of right away. There is so much good in the ways people have found to support one another in these difficult and frightening times. Thank you for your Opening Prayers on this day in our unusual times. May you and your family be well, my dear friend.

  • Diane
    Dear friends: This afternoon I joined in on the Global Meeting of Gratitude as Serafina so graciously invited us. It was a gift to be connected via video with kindred spirits across Europe, South America and here in the U S. I found myself full of joyful tears and in wonder of the miracle of this gathering. And, to my delight, I was there with our dear friend Ose. What a gift to see her face! Ose....from Switzerland, the birthplace of my maternal great-grandparents! My heart was bursting...

    Dear friends:

    This afternoon I joined in on the Global Meeting of Gratitude as Serafina so graciously invited us. It was a gift to be connected via video with kindred spirits across Europe, South America and here in the U S. I found myself full of joyful tears and in wonder of the miracle of this gathering. And, to my delight, I was there with our dear friend Ose. What a gift to see her face! Ose….from Switzerland, the birthplace of my maternal great-grandparents! My heart was bursting with joy!
    Dearest Ose…..I don’t know if you realized it was me there with you. I was focused on listening and so did not share verbally but I was so happy to see and hear you my friend.
    Serafina….I cannot thank you enough for this gift. I am hopeful that these gatherings may continue. I feel extra blessed tonight as I prepare for sleep and will send up a special prayer of gratitude as I wander off into my dreams.
    ~With grateful love ♥

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    • Ose

      Dear Diane, yes, it was my pleasure as well seeing you and all there, having the opportunity to meet virtually with the lovely kindred people from the different places the world. A big thank you to all who work for it to make it happen, as it is probably not so easy to bring people together who, like me, are having difficulties to let go of some fears related with this, which I hope to be able to clear.

  • Anna

    The orchid

  • Anna

    I hope all my dear friends in this Lounge are fine. I miss many of you and I only hope that your health is good, that your souls are at peace.
    To underline a sense of hope, I will try to attach a photo, it is an orchid that a friend gave me, just a year ago, and it is now blooming. I’ve never been able to hold an orchid …
    May our rebirth be like this flower, can we have the patience to sprout this wonder.
    With much love

    • Aspirit

      May your Beautiful Soul be Blessed Today, Anna! ♥ ♥ ♥

    • Palm

      Dear Anna, it’s exquisite! I am happy you got this joyful surprise, thank you for sharing. Yes, patience and hope, friend â¤ï¸
      Love to you and all

      • Pilgrim

        Palm! So happy to find you here! Wishing you love and light, my friend.

        • Palm

          Pilgrim, thank you for your words, my friend! Sending loving thoughts to you.

    • Diane

      Cara Anna….what a beautiful orchid. I’ve never held an orchid either. What a lovely gift from your friend.
      It is, as you said, a symbol of rebirth that I hope and pray we all experience.
      ~Blessings to you mi amica ♥

    • Pilgrim

      Thank you, dear Anna, for you kind words and photo of this lovely orchid, a gift for all of us here. I love the idea of having the patience to sprout wonder! May you be well, my friend.

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