As we celebrate Thanksgiving, please read some quotes from Brother David Steindl-Rast:
“The root of joy is gratefulness. It is not joy that makes us grateful,
it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
“We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.”
“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness.”
“There is a wave of gratefulness because people are becoming aware how important this is and how this can change our world. It can change our world in immensely important ways, because if you’re grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people, and, you are respectful to everybody, and that changes this power pyramid under which we live.”
“Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.”
- What does the feast of Thanksgiving mean to you?
- What makes you most grateful?
- How does being grateful affect your relationships?
O God, help me be grateful for the many blessings I have received.