Gratitude

Strengthen your gratitude for the relationships you have with everyone around you. Appreciate how people have touched your life, however briefly.

* Express your thankfulness by doing the necessary, but menial tasks around your home, so that other family members don’t have to do them. Become like the Franciscan, Brother Lawrence when he prayed, “Lord, make me a saint through my washing the pots and pans.”

Thank you for this day.
Thank you for the Fellowship of life.
Thank you for my teacher.

If you strengthened your level of gratitude, you’d lower your stress level

Gratitude is owned by everyone and no
one. Gratitude is in cities, in the country, in houses
of worship, in darkened allies, in caves, in homes
and in tiny apartments. Gratitude grows the more
you tap into it through acknowledgment, sharing
and awareness. Gratitude is available to each of
us at anytime.

As a reader of my blog, you realize now that I share stories of things I have done, or stories I have heard in person, stories I read online, and an assorted collection of what I like to call, “Stuff!”

Once upon a time, there was a large mountainside, where an eagle’s nest rested. The eagle’s nest
contained four large eagle eggs. One day an earthquake rocked the mountain causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain, to a chicken farm, located in the valley below. The chickens knew that they must protect and care for the eagle’s egg, so an old hen volunteered to nurture and raise the large egg.