Today I am grateful for the Earth — both all her peaceful Beauty, and all her violent turmoil … I am thankful for her shape — that there ever remains is a realm of mystery beneath her every surface (no matter how deeply we happen to delve); that there is always a panorama of perfection […]
Today I am grateful for family, in all its splendid forms … *I am thankful, of course, for my immediate family: for my mother who nurtured me from my true Beginning (both via her caring deeds, as well as her occasional lack thereof), for my father who inspired me along the way (both via his […]
Today I am thankful for Purpose — that while it is not certain whether we each have a predestined path to follow or a pre-arranged task to find & fulfill, it is clear that each of us has been blessed with a unique package of gifts & talents that only we can give to — […]
Today I am grateful for my enemies — for those that persecute me directly, as well as those who place more subtle (yet just as ominous) obstacles in my path … I am thankful for all the partners and friends over the years who have abandoned me — those who have rejected my chosen Way, […]
Today I am grateful for sustenance — both those substances that energize me my body & mind when ingested from without, as well as those that sustain my spirit & Soul when partaken me from within … *I am thankful for the air that carries oxygen into my body; the same air that brings me […]
Today I am grateful for my Guides — both those “avatars” who have led me to the Light of Love, as well as those “false prophets” who tempt me away from It … And, you might ask, what makes a guide “True”? Well, she or he must first and foremost teach the selfless Way — […]
Today I am grateful for the ability to persist — not a “strength” fueled by fear or a “confidence” fueled by a certainty of religious faith, but rather a Strength that is available when we are deathly afraid and yet stride forth anyway; a calm resolve that settles over us when we choose to risk […]
Today I am grateful for my life’s sanctuaries — those havens of rest and safety where I have been blessed both to relay The Way to others and to replenish my energies while doing so … Initially, I am thankful for the more traditional homes in which I lived before becoming a Peace Pilgrim — […]
Today I am grateful for Movement: the beauty of all forms that flow … … the path of the sun as it travels across the sky, the undulating curve of the moon’s shadow that waxes & wanes across its luminous face, the gentle ribbon of the horizon that shifts ever so slowly over time (as […]
Today I am grateful for my Accomplishments — both those seen as such by myself, as well as those deemed to be “failures” by others; recognizing while I do so that none of the former could have been completed without the help of many assistants, and that none the latter could be criticized at all […]
Today I am grateful not only for duality itself, but for “YinYang” – the immense power that all things “bad” give to all things “good”, and the inspiration to Greatness that all things “good” bring to everyone who witnesses them. Or, in other words, today I am grateful for the Truth that all that is […]
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