Day 57k: Surrounded by Amazing … (06/10/2019)
Even when we are lost (or hurting, or exhausted, or destitute, or depressed, or terrified, or confused), if we but pause long enough to look around, we can see that there is always Love to be given — and that there is always Beauty to behold … 😉
“Gratitude goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ of the everyday and claims instead the far greater Truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts already or recently received, and yet now I realize that gratitude can go so much deeper — that gratitude can actually be lived as a discipline. And what is the discipline of gratitude? The discipline of gratitude is the explicit & conscious choice to acknowledge that all I am and all I have has been given to me as a gift, a gift that is to be celebrated by passing it all on to others.” ~ inspired by Henri J.M. Nouwen
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