Silent Gratitude

The poster says:

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.  - Gertrude Stein (from Brainyquote.com)

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Periodically, I do a post about gratitude.  Gratitude is the action that gives each of us the ability to enjoy abundance from the Universe on a regular interval.  Gratitude shows that we are aware that we cannot exist and accomplish every thing on our own.  

When a person has been of service, and the person has specifically helped you in some way, acknowledging their assistance ensures that the person will continue to help you in the future.  It shows that you are a person that it is grateful and is able to ask for help.

Many blessings,

Judy

Calm

When everything seems to be in chaos,

Find a place where it is calm. 

Here is the center of creation,

The place where you were born.

Each of you comes from a calmness

Of the Eternal Flame of life. 

It is not your nature to be angry or in upheaval.

You are Elemental.  You are healing.

Remember that most things are not about you;

Indeed, most often life is not about you at all.

Find that place where in the calmness, you can see

That life happens and does not need an explanation.

Be still.

Be calm.

 

Blessings,

Judy

Reflection

I took this picture of a mother duck and her babies in August.  The whole time that we walked around the pond, I heard the word, “reflect”.  I had been having some thoughts about this and that.  Reflect, however, means to me that I need to look at my actions and what was going on.

Some of the actions that popped into my mind were random things that I did that I wondered, at the time, why I did them.  However, I did what I was prompted to do.  Then, later, one of my friends needed the very things that Spirit had asked me to research and download.

In my reflection, I realized that most things are not about me.  They are about big picture things that I can assist with.  The retention pond, above, caused a lot of controversy when it was built.  Several years later, it is providing a safe place for the ducks and geese to nest and raise their young.  The last two years the river has flooded at the hatching time.  It would wash away the youngsters, and the flocks would diminish.  Spirit had the foresight to have retention ponds built in the regular hatching places.  It is the big picture thing again.

In my reflection, I realized that all is perfect, whole, and complete, and I do not need to spend energy on the things that do not matter.  From our very small perspective, though, all things matter.  

Blessings,

Judy