We are huffing and puffing.
Charlie and I are getting ready for the Gobble Gobble day.
our stress levels are going up. We're down to the final day before Thanksgiving. And there is still so much to do.
A Bloggle thought for Today
"The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start
being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more
you get.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I've decided to give away these gifts to you that can help make a difference.
Get your gifts here www.projectpossibilities.info
"Instructions on Gratitude
By David Steindl
Hold someone's hand to spread calm.
Whatever is given is a gifteven the most difficult experiences and traumatic events
can be seen as Wake-Up calls, and therefore gifts. And the appropriate response to
any gift is gratitude. In the depth of our heart, we can turn fear into courageous
trust, agitation and confusion into stillness, isolation into a sense of belonging,
alienation into love, and irrational reaction into Common Sense. The creative imagination
of gratefulness will suggest to each one of us how to go about this task. Here are
five small gestures that can help you show gratitude and stay awake.
1. All gratitude expresses trust. Suspicion will not even recognize a gift as gift:
who can prove that it isn't a lure, a bribe, a trap? Gratefulness has the courage
to trust and so overcomes fear. The air has been electrified by fearfulness these
days, a fearfulness fostered and manipulated by politicians and the media. There
lies our greatest danger: fear perpetuates violence. Mobilize the courage of your
heart, as the truly awake ones are doing.
Say one word today that gives a fearful person courage.
2. Because gratitude expresses courage, it spreads calm. Calm of this kind is quite
compatible with deep emotions. Join the truly compassionate ones who are calm and
strong. From the stillness of your heart's core reach out.
Calmly hold someone's hand today and spread calm.
3. When you are grateful, your heart is openopen towards others, open for surprise.
During big wake-up calls in your life, or in our collective lives, we often see remarkable
examples of openness: strangers helping strangers often in heroic ways. Others turn
away, isolate themselves, dare even less than at other times to look at each other.
Violence begins with isolation. Break this pattern. Make contact with people whom
you normally ignoreeye-contact at leastwith the agent at the toll booth, the parking
lot attendant, someone on the elevator.
Look a stranger in the eyes today and realize that there are no strangers.
4. You can feel either grateful or alienated, but never both at the same time. Gratefulness
drives out alienation; there is not room for both in the same heart. When you are
grateful you know that you belong to a network of give-and-take and you say "yes"
to that belonging. This "yes" is the essence of love. You need no words to express
it; a smile will do to put your "yes" into action. Don't let it matter to you whether
or not the other one smiles back.
Give someone an unexpected smile today and so contribute your share to peace on earth.
5. What your gratefulness does for yourself is as important as what it does for others.
Gratefulness boosts your sense of belonging; your sense of belonging in turn boosts
your Common Sense. Your "yes" to belonging attunes you to the common concerns shared
by all human beings. We have only one enemy, our common enemy: violence. Common Sense
tells us: we can stop violence only by stopping to act violently; war is no way to
peace.
Web source:
www.oprah.com
Here's how you can get your good on!
XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL
If you go to this web site,
www.LetsSayThanks.com
you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent
to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it,
but it will go to a member of the armed services.
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It is
FREE and it only takes a second.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you
are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.
This takes just 10 seconds and it's a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take
the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say
enough thank you's.
Thanks for taking the time to support our military!
Warm thoughts and wishes to hope this Thanksgiving will be especially plentiful!
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
A Big Thanksgiving Hug! To All My Bloggle Readers.
May your hearts and home be full of divine blessings on this Thanksgiving!
J Blind I Can
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