Gratitude, an action.

Is it enough for me to say Thank You?

It needs no enhancement nor gilding, yet does it obligate me further? How do I show gratitude? For what do I show it?

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Let me live a grateful day, Lord.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I be more grateful?

Reading:

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” – Cicero, Pro Plancio

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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Days

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“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:18, KJV

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Or a hut?

What am I building?

A palace? A hut? A fortress?

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The same structure can be all of these things.

Lord, let this pile of sticks and rock become what you would have it be. Let me see it rightly, and live as your child.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I see all the possibilities in this place?

Reading:

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house.” – C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

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“Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” – Psalm 127:1, KJV

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Each episode an opportunity.

I awaken to a broken vase.

Yesterday’s error is today’s opportunity. Will I take it?

Will today be tomorrow’s regret?

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I can only make progress. I have not arrived.

Let me move carefully and with compassion today, Lord.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I learn from yesterday?

Reading:

“Nothing is ever really lost, or can be, / But the soul remembers everything.” — Walt Whitman

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“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Attributed to the Buddha

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“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” — Ephesians 5:16 (KJV)

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Pointing the way.

Frozen grass on the meadow.

Creek running thin beneath a skin of ice.

Steps crack.

Break, mend, move again.

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Geese overhead, calling across the cold. They are intent on a destination I do not know.

Let me trust my steps, Lord. Let the geese point me toward what is new.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I trust your guidance, Lord?

Reading:

“No one can tell what goes on in the between-places, where the wild geese go.” — Barry Lopez

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“Keep your mind in the present, your heart in the eternal, and your feet on the road.” — John of the Cross

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“For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing.” — Isaiah 55:12 (KJV)

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