Grateful Tuesday Prayer Day to all of you!

The view from my chair, as I write, looking out onto my balcony and the sky beyond. Sunlight starting to enter our courtyard.

My mind will focus, as always, on many things. I’m grateful for this.

I’m a wussy driver. Do I wish to move beyond this belief? I can, and do, fly all over the world, but I haven’t driven more than 25 miles from home in the last year. I would drive further, and have done so, occasionally in past years. I would drive further if I wanted to be some place further away badly enough, and driving were the only practical way to get there. I want to go to a place 20 mi away, but I might get a Lyft, because I don’t have to take much stuff with me.

I just mentioned Byron Katie’s teachings, in the Gratitude Lounge. ‘The Work’, where she tells us to turn things around.

I was feeling that someone was thinking about me, and I realized – maybe they weren’t thinking about me. It was a useful turnaround. It’s so easy to embrace my own ideas about people and situations, without opening myself to other possibilities.

Br David has a post, or a post about him, in the blog section a few weeks ago, about the value of hope. I’m hoping my talk will go well this morning, which is not obvious to me.

I’m impressed by the goodness of people – when my purse on the metro was delivered by someone to the next metro stop, for example.

Thank you, grateful sea –

Ring the bells that can still ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That is how the light gets in.

Thank you, dear grateful sea, for the lovely quote!
And thank you, dear Alicia, for being here with us in ‘voice’ today.

Enjoy, Michele! Mine is only a Peets on-sale medium roast K-cup. We used to think there was the least caffeine in a Dark Roast, but that’s not true, so I’m enjoying being able to enjoy the lighter roasts, as I visit Gratefulness.

It’s good to see your sweet ‘face,’ dear Michele! We think of you, too. Hugs!

Dear Dawn Elaine, Did you ever hear about writing ‘6-word memoirs’? One of mine is:
“I want to want to write!”
Congratulations – and hugs – for being able to write and write and write!

Thank you, Dear Palm – Yes! Sometimes I like to use Byron Katie’s method of turning things around – ‘Maybe they didn’t mean what I thought they meant’, for example.

Wow – thank you, Ose – that’s a great blessing. Hugs!

Yes, Palm – hooray! I didn’t even light a candle for it, because it felt superstitious, tho I lit a couple earlier that seemed to help me. Now I can light a gratitude candle ;-]

What a wonderful saying: ‘what you focus on grows’.
SO worth remembering! Thanks and virtual hugs!

Thank you, Kevin. Give yourself a big hug

Thank you, Tom, for your ‘Arrrrg!’ – and may you grow, without too much pain. Hugs to you

Well, he only knew the Munich Rathaus moving figures, so he figured his vase was a Glockenspiel – he doesn’t know German…

Dear Carla, may you succeed in both your perspective and your payment plans! [Is ‘suceed’ consistent with ‘gratitude’? I can’t think of a better word..] Hugs to you!