Category: gratitude

Gratitude every day of the year

November 21, 2023 | 31 comments

Thanksgiving Day is soon upon us in the United States and other countries around the world. It’s a reminder of how important gratitude is to success in life, not to be felt just on Thanksgiving Day, but on every day

Change course when helpful

November 16, 2023 | 24 comments

This statement by Mary Baker Eddy is heartening: “If you believe in and practice wrong knowingly, you can at once change your course and do right” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 253). If we feel stuck

From glory to glory

September 11, 2023 | 29 comments

Years back, a man was telling me about a series of problems he had been facing in his life. No sooner did he solve one problem, but then another popped up, then another, and another. There seemed to be no

Silencing sighs and groans

August 29, 2023 | 18 comments

Sighs and groans are the language of faultfinders. ~ James Lendall Basford Rather than focusing on faults and finding reasons to “sigh and groan,” look for something positive happening. Look for reasons to rejoice!

Healing pain in my fingers

June 6, 2023 | 35 comments

I enjoy playing the piano. To challenge myself on the keyboard, I committed to learning “Prelude in G Minor,” by Rachmaninoff. For my level of expertise, it’s a difficult piece, with massive chords, and fast-moving passages of melody that tax