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If you don´t mind and according to our today´s “word for the day” and taking it as an inspiration, I would like to share a grateful poem. Every life is a poem, all included is beauty, and it is all inclusive.
I am grateful to have had the strength and the good fortune and intense support of so many to have overcome a strong sensation of isolation once resulted of very early imprints in life.
I am grateful to have been surrounded with p...
I am grateful to have been surrounded with people in need from early childhood on resulting in early waking to compassion and caring and later to learning to include myself also, thanks to dear friends.
I am grateful to have found courage one day as a teen to stand up against domination and aggression which opened my eyes that to be a victim had been my choice and to turn my face to it.
I am grateful for the constant and imperative demand to return home immediately to do some duty when just having met friends, resulting in developing responsibility, kindness, perseverance and some competences.
I am so grateful to be work in progress to overcome the resulting hesitation or block to get in contact, learning to reach out and express feelings, learning to trust, learning to reply accordingly to the deep longing in myself and others to sharing visions and friendship as kindred hearts.
I am deeply grateful for all of you here, and for my dear friends and loved ones, and I kindly ask your forgiveness where I failed. Gratefully yours, Ose
Failing in most important aspects related to my heart´s longing is the result of limiting myself with sticking to these old stories of identity. How to be grateful and to be present with an open heart is an art offered by Br. David for us to transform. To relate to joy, gratitude and beauty instead. Thank you so much for being here with me, supporting me and all in this. Wishing you all an extraordinary day of joy and transformative impulses.
To keep still and gratefully stay where and when being invited and first also joyfully has went to, let go of imagined fears and preoccupied assumptions, giving way for possibly working together in friendship of kindred hearts. Expressing that I am really sorry of my hesitation having hurt you. To ask please lets try again, if possible.
I may share listening deeply and caring, and prayer sent silently into the world.
For the world, as so many here, it is peace, and enough food and water for the starving and the thirsty fellow people. And may the pandemic subside. For myself I hope and will be grateful for whatever I may contribute of which might serve the community and friends and loved ones. And , if I may add, in order be able to really support peace and contribute to stop hurting, to overcome my fatal reactions to the fear of being left out.
How to express it? I clearly felt it is Gottesliebe, God love motivating me. And I am afraid.
Living with one another lovingly and peacefully. Being of support for people in need, allowing to be vulnerable and kindness I hope to have offered today and every day as a contribution to help thriving awareness and so helping leading to love and peace.
To be kindly made attentive on some unreflected expression which could have hurt someone, not intended at all but nevertheless… and I apologize to the ones concerned. I highly appreciate and am deeply grateful to be with you here and to be part of all. It is a great gift, any of your posts and replies I feel is kind sharing, which inspires not only me, but anyone who visits here to be part of the whole, to think deeply and be grateful.
First curiosity needs to be addressed in me, I found out through this question, so thank you dearly for this one, dear Gratefulness-team. Currently, curiosity invites me to follow the ways where stillness is present in our lives and how perception of silence or loneliness might be transformed into perception of stillness. When I spoke to a woman I met yesterday, she was kind and open to mention that she currently feels desperately lonely, aggravated a lot due to the current Covid condi...
First curiosity needs to be addressed in me, I found out through this question, so thank you dearly for this one, dear Gratefulness-team. Currently, curiosity invites me to follow the ways where stillness is present in our lives and how perception of silence or loneliness might be transformed into perception of stillness. When I spoke to a woman I met yesterday, she was kind and open to mention that she currently feels desperately lonely, aggravated a lot due to the current Covid conditions, which also made visible that some of her friends would not really be friends and not much of them are left. She lives alone while suffering anxiety due to former cancer. I told her that these days, I often would be sad, too, feeling lonely also or would cry, as all distractions, excitement or regular meetings where usually I would have met people or friends have been stopped. Then suddenly stillness was present, and from this some peace, some knowing that she and me, too, we are not alone in this arose, and that many people really are suffering deeply due to the isolation and all the heavy side effects of the pandemic. It was a precious, warm and soothing experience arising from stillness, leaving us grateful for this unexpected moment of shared peace.
Writing in the morning about what for I am grateful, exercise to sense it, allow it to rise; especially on days like this one where for several hours, all other but gratitude swirls around in me, then listening compassionately to the ones I encounter opens the door to gratefulness again; to read and to reply here on this site; When I rant like a Reed Sparrow like today, taking a moment, may be talking to a friend and opening my heart again is balm and gratefulness just flows in again.
As the colorful, touching, heartwarming bridge to you and you and to the heart of all that is.🙏
cooking for my friends is one of the joyful offers, almost done for dinner; feeding the birds outside and helping them to generate some warmth during freezing cold temperatures outside; through speaking with a student and hopefully being of service for his bachelor thesis on a substantial theme we both are interested in and so possibly fostering an opening to new ways of therapy in the medical field, a tiny small step in the direction of new possibilities for the deepening of healing, and, wh...
cooking for my friends is one of the joyful offers, almost done for dinner; feeding the birds outside and helping them to generate some warmth during freezing cold temperatures outside; through speaking with a student and hopefully being of service for his bachelor thesis on a substantial theme we both are interested in and so possibly fostering an opening to new ways of therapy in the medical field, a tiny small step in the direction of new possibilities for the deepening of healing, and, who knows, beyond.
When touching something, touching it caressingly, when feeling or sensing, allow tenderness, and when thinking, being kind also. Any encounter can be a tender moment! Thank you for this beautiful question, dear Gratefulness-team.
That I am loved, no matter what, and that I respond to this humbling gift with gratitude, kindness, and love to His Grace.
Thank you, dear Pilgrim, for your kind reply 🙏
Thank you, dear Helly. I can only second your reply.
Beautiful, thank you!
Thank you, dear expati! 🙏
Hello, dear Alicia! Wishing you a good day.
Thank you, dear Alicia, for your prayers for Wilma and all of us and for your kindness. Warmly, Ose
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