Gratitude allows us to see the best in each other and in our lives. Gratitude helps our moods, coping behaviors, health behaviors, physical symptoms, and overall life view, empowering us to become more optimistic.
COVID-19 seems to be bringing out the best and worst of humanity. Let’s take a moment to recenter ourselves and then share with all around us.
Is there anything for which you are grateful for? Your gratitude can be a spark in my day, my life, my world!
My husband read this to me from another blog. It seemed so timely! We both really believed that it should be reblogged as a wish, a hope of what human-kind could become. My thoughts are that Kelly Curtis, of “Kelly’s Quest” could have been feeling the same way.
SOMETHING LOVELY And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new ways of being and were still and listened more deeply someone meditated someone prayed someone danced someone met their own shadow and people started thinking differently—- And people healed… And in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways dangerous, mindless, and heartless…. The earth began to heal— And when the danger ended and people found themselves… They grieved for the dead and they made new choices and dreamed of new visions and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully just as they had been healed. Kathleen O ‘ Meara (1869)
Written after a plague had devastated Ireland in the 1860s.
SOMETHING LOVELY And people stayed home and read books and listened and rested and exercised and made art and played and learned new ways of being …
