The Resolute Woman

Category: thankfulness

  • Praise for the morning!

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    I have always loved the words to this song since I first heard Cat Stevens sing them decades ago, and I was delighted to find the poem “Morning Has Broken” by Eleanor Farjean. Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning!….…

  • Thank you for green trees

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    Now when I take my morning walk, I see green buds on the trees and bright flowers in the lawns. In his poem “This Amazing Day,” e.e. cummings says thank you for this beauty. i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream…

  • Awe, pleasure and wonder

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    “Gratitude is rooted in the sense that life is a gift,” writes Rabbi Harold Kushner. In his book The Lord Is My Shepherd, Rabbi quotes Abraham Maslow: “Psychologist Abraham Maslow has praised as a character trait of the fully mature adult ‘the ability to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

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    We hope that your tummy will be full of good food, and your heart will be full of gratitude. As Pooh thought happily, “Thanksgiving is a time when everybody gets rumbly in the tumbly and thankful by the heartful.” We found the Pooh quote on a Hallmark card.

  • Count your blessings

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    “Gratitude is a way of looking at the world that does not change the facts of your life, but has the power to make your life more enjoyable,” says Rabbi Harold Kushner. “Learn to respond to the sun’s coming up every morning as a miracle….Instead of wishing that you felt better physically and could lose…

  • Happy New Year!

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    It’s the beginning of a new year! Today, enjoy the blessing of the year ahead. Don’t make resolutions. You can do that tomorrow. Don’t think of all the things that you didn’t accomplish last year. Think about what you did accomplish. Don’t think about all your problems. Think about all of your blessings. We wish…

  • A lesson relearned—my interesting family

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    I recently had dinner with a good friend, and she spent a long time complaining about the relatives she planned to entertain during the holidays. I don’t know about you, but I could complain a bit about a relative or two. My family is not perfect, but it is the only family that I have.…

  • Express gratitude

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    In their book Supersurvivors—The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success, David Feldman and Lee Daniel Kravetz suggest relying on “grounded hope” instead of positive thinking. You have grounded hope if your hope is rooted in reality. You know that you can’t always control what happens to you. But, you believe that, whatever happens to you,…

  • The fullness of life

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    We all know that we feel better—much better—when we’re thankful. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life,” explained Melody Beattie in The Language of Letting Go. “It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.” We found Beattie’s quote in the November 2014 issue of…

  • We’re thankful for family

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    Ranna, Fayteen’s daughter, has been in the hospital. We are thankful that she is home from the hospital and growing stronger. My son, Jay, was sure that he could come home for Christmas, but he wasn’t sure if he would be able to come home for Thanksgiving. “He has to come home for Thanksgiving,” his…