Super Grateful Sunday, 3.13.2011

This meme was created with the belief that good things come to us when we are thankful. Reflect on the past 7 days, and every Sunday, list at least 7 things for which you are grateful.

"Gratitude arises whenever you start feeling God’s presence around you; then only gratitude is left. Then your whole energy becomes gratitude, then your whole being becomes a thanksgiving, it becomes a prayer — because nothing is missing, and the world is so perfect, and everything is as it should be. Gratitude is natural. Gratitude is not something that can be practiced. You have been taught to be grateful; you cannot be. Gratefulness is a consequence: when you feel God close by, gratitude arises. It is a by-product. Respect arises. This respect is not something that you manage, it is something beyond you. You have been taught to be grateful to your parents, taught to be grateful to your teachers, taught to be grateful to your elders, but those are all just conditionings. When real gratitude arises, then you see what a tremendous difference there is. The gratitude that was taught was just a concept, a dead ritual. You were following it like a mechanism. When the real gratitude upsurges in your being, you feel for the first time what prayer is, what love is." - OSHO

1. A week-long break of doing nothing but being, exploring, having fun, spending time, sleeping in, imagining, and enjoying (with a little bit of fun work in between *wink*).
2. A beautiful Sunday morning.
3. Being reminded of the existence of a greater, wiser me just beyond the littler, thinking me.
4. Having two precious beings in my life who still remember who they are in their essence and who remind me of who I am in mine.
5. Having faith.
6. Being able to see the beauty in other people.
7. Accidental phone call from my best friend as I was sleeping. He had just woken up himself, so he was still disoriented and mistook me for his nephew. I always jump at the chance to give him a hard time. It always results in laughter. Great way to wake up.
8. The sunlight streaming through the soft, sheer, white drapes on my bedroom window, so pure, comforting, and reassuring.
9. My little history buff, who, I'm sure is geeking out at the Alamo with her grandfather.
10. Delicious lemon squares that my ex- father-in-law sent home with me.

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