The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
03379 – The Discipline of Gratitude
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03319 – A Continuous, Increasing Joy
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. from A Joseph Campbell Companion
03318 – The Cosmic Dance: Always There
The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life…the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity, and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is...
03272 – Joy!
Joy does not arrive with a fanfare, on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life. Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee, watching the sun hit your favourite tree, just right. And you usher joy away, because you are not ready for it. Your house is not...
03262 – Watch Out for…
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially, your heart.
03228 – Our Leaning Side
A pastor of a small church would occasionally call on one gentleman to pray, and every time this one particular guy would pray, he would end with the strangest statement, “And, oh Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” Finally, the pastor pulled him aside, and he...
03227 – Unfinished Paintings
I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel. Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. Aside from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing. I would like to paint the way a bird...
03203 – Love Like No Other
From his hospital bed this morning (one-day stay for a minor procedure), Dad asked me to please help him with flowers and a cake for Mom’s birthday. She is turning 75 this weekend. Once at the store, I had to send multiple pictures of options to him before he was...
03193 – Building Bridges of Suffering & Joy
A few years ago, my son attended the funeral of a classmate whose life had been tragically cut short by an automobile accident. Though Stan did not know him very well as they were both relatively new to the school, he said the boy was “soft-spoken and very kind.”...
03184 – The Fountain of Youth
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.