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What Are You Grateful For?

I think itâ€™s so important to take time out each day to express in thought or words what we are grateful for. I attend a weekly class where this is one of our exercises. The first few weeks were easy enough; come up with three things youâ€™re grateful for. Each week got more difficult, since you couldnâ€™t repeat one. Then you start to look at gratitude in a different way. It starts out being physical, easily definable things, which is OK, but then you move to the more intangible and even sublime thingsâ€¦...So, whatâ€™s your definition of gratitude, and list three things (more if you want) youâ€™re grateful for.

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my job.

gratitude isn't just for thanksgiving that's for sure I am particularly grateful to have been born where I was, when I was - though I wouldn't mind being a newcomer to this world right now - I am eternally optimistic about the opportunities that lie behind all those immense problems out there... i am very grateful for my fully owned home, my wife, immediate life, material comforts, children and wider family - all of which are large... spiritually I am grateful for the Quaker movement, my local group, time for peace and quiet, friends who support action for justice in the world. nature, wonders, music, art, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, creative writing, flight, so much more.

I'm grateful for your question. To remind me to see grace in all things, all actions, all moments even those most difficult of times. Thank you!

my parents, and my car. and my life in general,

1. my depression: I must be trying to accomplish something important to me to feel so defeated 2. this moment: outside my window the sky is blue, the sounds of folks like my husband rushing off to work, the air is sweet, cool, and breezy, the cat is quiet and soulpancake is grateful and Kensho1111 is Love Love Love 3. barmy's resistance to gratitude, which I can relate to, isn't resistance what "I" am made of? Let me remember to feel into that feisty stuff today today today

oops clicked the wrong spell check....quadriplegic.... I'm grateful that my spelling isn't worse than it already is!

I am grateful that I'm not a quadruplicate, with a bad case of poison ivy on my face and live alone on the tenth floor with no elevator and have a freakazoid neighbor who is plotting to hang me out on the laundry line and letting the pigeons make a nest of me.

I could go all day on this one - got trained in it from childhood - physical: grateful for my eyes, my hands, my fussy stomach - mental: grateful for sudoku puzzles, Gene Wolfe books, soulpancake collective - emotional: grateful for my hubby, my cousin Laurel, my cat Eddie - spiritual: grateful for my tests in life, the peace from prayer, the virtues people demonstrate. - miscellaneous: grateful for whatever weather, laugh lines, widespread use of deodorant.

the air i breath , the water i drink, the food i eat ,, and the earth under my feet.. if i have all this i will have a nice place to sleep... a blanket and a pillow would be nice too.. roof over my head maybe even a bed .. cloth on my body and shoes on my feet .. its getting warmer now or colder

I see gratitude as thankfulness, a genuine appreciation of what one has and has received. - For being - For awareness of being a part of the whole, seen and unseen - For memory and imagination

1. Everything 2. Everything 3. Everything 4. Everything

I am sick of all this idle chatter.

Crap, I'm not grateful for Word doing a hatchet job on my text when I cut and paste into SP's post box. There's an apostrophe wherever you see one of those goofy character sets.

@kensho1111 Phoenix, Arizona USA

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Crap, I'm not grateful for Word doing a hatchet job on my text when I cut and paste into SP's post box. There's an apostrophe wherever you see one of those goofy character sets.

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my job.

I'm grateful for your question. To remind me to see grace in all things, all actions, all moments even those most difficult of times. Thank you!

my parents, and my car. and my life in general,

oops clicked the wrong spell check....quadriplegic.... I'm grateful that my spelling isn't worse than it already is!

I am grateful that I'm not a quadruplicate, with a bad case of poison ivy on my face and live alone on the tenth floor with no elevator and have a freakazoid neighbor who is plotting to hang me out on the laundry line and letting the pigeons make a nest of me.

the air i breath , the water i drink, the food i eat ,, and the earth under my feet.. if i have all this i will have a nice place to sleep... a blanket and a pillow would be nice too.. roof over my head maybe even a bed .. cloth on my body and shoes on my feet .. its getting warmer now or colder

I see gratitude as thankfulness, a genuine appreciation of what one has and has received. - For being - For awareness of being a part of the whole, seen and unseen - For memory and imagination

1. Everything 2. Everything 3. Everything 4. Everything

I am sick of all this idle chatter.

Crap, I'm not grateful for Word doing a hatchet job on my text when I cut and paste into SP's post box. There's an apostrophe wherever you see one of those goofy character sets.

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