Category: gratitude

A Day for Thanksgiving

November 28, 2013 | 14 comments

It is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a national holiday held to remind people of the importance of showing gratitude and honoring a higher source outside of themselves. It feels good to give thanks! And I thank you for

Acknowledge others’ help

November 11, 2013 | 7 comments

  “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” ~ Author Unknown It’s proverbial that we build on the shoulders of those who have gone before

Operate on a surplus

October 30, 2013 | 10 comments

People have different models for how they conduct their economic lives. Some are always running on a deficit, accepting lack as normal, figuring they will always come up short and need to borrow to survive. Some expect to just get

Stay God-aware

October 9, 2013 | 21 comments

How God-aware are you? I got busy cleaning an overcrowded workroom last week.  A couple of hours slipped by as I sorted through piles of miscellaneous items, organized tools into their proper place, cleaned in the back corners under the

Are you happy over others’ merits?

October 4, 2013 | 6 comments

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It warms me to remember that there is no competition