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I thank God for this most

amazing day;

for the leaping greenly

spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;

and for everything

which is natural, which is

infinite, which is yes.

—e. e. cummings

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Who is blind? Someone who can see no other world. Who is dumb? Someone who can say nothing pleasant about their lot. Who is poor? Someone who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? One who is happy with their lot.

- Indian Proverb

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“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.”

- Albert Clarke

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I will be thankful for all the blessings in my life. I will spell out my days with a grammar of gratitude.

This is day 3 of 10 as Light Moment offers a different New Year’s resolution each day based upon Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat’s “Spiritually Literate New Year's Resolutions”

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“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

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Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

- I Thessalonians 5:16-18

Happy Thanksgiving from the Pastoral Care Dept at Children's Memorial Hospital!

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“If I have seen farther than other [people] it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

- Isaac Newton

Who has lifted you up to see farther in life?

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I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

- Ephesians 1:16

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“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”

- Anthony Robbins

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

~ Winston Churchill

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“The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.”

- Leonard Nimoy

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“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.”

- Unknown

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When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.

- White Elk

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“The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”

- William Shakespeare

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“All beginnings require that you unlock a new door.”

- Rebbi Nachman of Breslov

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"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

- Anonymous

Pictured above is Mother Teresa with a child in Calcutta