Every day I am happy to access this website, visiting the “daily questions” or the gratitude lounge or other precious resources which are offered plentiful here on this site. To me, it is a daily opportunity to be in touch with spirituality, meaning, gratitude and joy, and an opportunity to connect with many kind people who share here. My handwritten letter I would like to address to Br. David, and it would say:

Dear Br. David,
since I first visited the website Gratefulness. org, which you initiated together with other kindred hearts, the spirit of universal love and gratefulness accompanies my life on a daily basis and is greatly inspiring. Your work and intention leads me to ponder on the essentials and to the heart of things, provided at least that my often fearful heart is able to be open to this great offer. I feel it is an immense gift to the world, including me. It is enlightening my life and the life of many others, to “become who we are”, of what this really means I only know so little, but feeling and sensing the vast beauty of spirit conveyed through your inspiring being and work all over, which is accessible to all of us here on this site.
it is a gift of sorts to the world, which you intended and fulfilled, reaching out to every corner of the world, inviting each and everyone to join in the community of all beings, no matter the confession or point of personal evolution. It is an invitation to become one with all, in every expression of your being.
Amanda so kindly offered some understanding, of which I don´t know much at all, but if you allow, I would like to express joining in wishing for you from the depth of my heart that, whenever the moment will be in your life, your completion of all the colors of the rainbow may shine brightly. May you be blessed eternally. Yours in deep gratefulness, Ose

Dear Michele, thank you so much for your recent reply to my post of 4 days ago, and as I cannot reply to you at that place, here I am.
You are encouraging us in so many ways, dear Michele. Reminding to keep being faithful brings me to tears, as I nearly lost all faith.
Reading your lovely posts these days when I hardly could say even a word was heartwarming and brought some peaceful moments. I feel you rose to become so supportive and I am grateful for your sharing and the friendship you offer to me and to all of us. In a way, your loving kindness is like the rescuing ship you are talking about, at least for me today, as I felt completely stuck and unable to say something since days, may be even much longer. Thank you dearly for reaching out, dear friend, and for being there and accompanying us with your compassionate heart.

Good morning, dear friends sharing here! This morning, a tiny glimpse through the heart´s eye is filling my heart with gratitude Michele, your post did so much help to consider the “right” perspective! Thanks a lot again.
It is Tuesday, our common day of prayer. Please let me join you today, with thanks and blessings to all of you who share here in this sacred space. To all in the world who suffer, may they be blessed. May they be surrounded by love and care, may the starving be nourished and the thirsty be given water, and may every homeless find shelter. May peace be with all of us. Have a lovely day, you all out there.

To me it feels that being grateful is the natural reply to the love all around. I am grateful for the gift of another day today, and of being held in this love all around. Being stuck in negative feelings like false pride, resentment or envy, hinders the flow of love to flow freely, which it would naturally do. Being grateful antidotes these negative emotions and leads to let them go. It leads to change focus and brings joy instead of suffering. Gratefulness opens the door to feel His love again. It is God´s love that heals.

There are so many moments where I receive and have received gift from loved ones, yesterday, and already today at this early time of the morning. Friends were friendly with me and accepting, offered joining, accompanied me in a non-judgemental way in difficult moments, patients were just calling to express their joy, so many moments for which I am deeply grateful. I am humbled by them and thank you, dear gratefulness-team, for this question. May I always be the love for you, too, and to open my heart to change where I could not yet. I feel so sorry to have hurt you, to have failed to honor the love that you are, and all creation. Any moment is a gift, with loved ones, with each of you, and with all creation.🙏

The grey heron which daily circles in front of my window and then landing at the roof across the road. It is amazing and stunning to watch such a large bird circling, looking at it nearly face to face, joyfully perceiving its grace while flying. It is always as if the bird would send a short greeting over to me and all who perceive it´s presence, and I feel humbled whenever I see it.
The mist around and it´s mysterious atmosphere I do enjoy and it fills me with wonder. I feel reminded today in the meaning of mist for the redwoods near the coast of California, where I once had the pleasure to stay. They essentially need the mist to survive.
And. like Kevin mentioned already, the being interconnected through this wonderwork of our computer we daily use to interact with near and far is just nearly irreplaceable by now. How could we all be in contact around the world in so so manyfold, creative ways? I am deeply grateful for all which is, all inclusive.

Thank you, dear Michele. Could be that my current state is not far from yours; trying to meet myself and others with a tender, vulnerable and open heart, trying to sort out self pity, and try to stay centered, clear minded and warmhearted as far as possible while floating in the mud sometimes, currently at least being able to more observing the fear of drowning than struggling with drowning itself. That´s at least how I perceive your brave struggle and heartwarming being. I am grateful for your friendship.