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sparkleflit 76F
5205 posts
9/6/2019 9:12 pm
GRATITUDE LINK



I spent years in therapy writing masses of journals. Gratitude was a twice daily exercise that I practiced faithfully. I created a symbol for this, a shortcut....I searched my subconscious and remembered a childhood wonder ...a heart-lightening visual of laying on the river-bank and looking up into the blue-blooming Hare-Bells.....and Paramahansa Yogananda saying..." I make my heart a wilderness, that the wildflowers of thy love will blossom there."........So now, I can bring that sky-lit blue into my mind and I'm flooded with gratitude.....

sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
9/6/2019 9:16 pm

Prescription for gratitude.......set up a link and take a full dose as often as needed.....


Rocketship 79F
18531 posts
9/7/2019 5:13 am

Ahhhhh~~~~ YES !!!!


MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
9/7/2019 6:57 am

Many times I reach back in my memories for one of those moments and just enjoy that peaceful feeling once again. I also enjoy experiencing that feeling in the present, often by sitting outside and watching the clouds shift shapes and shutting out all the rest of the world around me, except the sound of the wind and the birds.
Interesting expression: gratitude link. Something I should practice more often.


Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


MrsJoe 76F
17309 posts
9/7/2019 9:59 am

Lulu, I just came back to thank you for this blog. I can't explain it and won't even try to analyze it, but it seems to have made brighter a day that was starting out pretty dark………. and I don't mean the weather.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


Shartaun03 81F
6169 posts
9/7/2019 1:37 pm

When I was a child growing up I liked to lay outside on the lawn on a warm sunny day. I would look up at the sun with my eyes closed and I would see all kinds of colors and shapes. It was always so peaceful. Now my special time is sitting down at English Bay and looking out at the water where all the big ships sit waiting to be loaded or unloaded. At night it is like a little city out there and usually on the weekend there can be up to 20 ships out there. It always seems so peaceful.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
9/7/2019 8:22 pm

    Quoting MrsJoe:
    Lulu, I just came back to thank you for this blog. I can't explain it and won't even try to analyze it, but it seems to have made brighter a day that was starting out pretty dark………. and I don't mean the weather.
I wrote this on fb to a young friend who I often looked after when she was a child and now lives far away and has children of her own.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
9/7/2019 8:24 pm

    Quoting Shartaun03:
    When I was a child growing up I liked to lay outside on the lawn on a warm sunny day. I would look up at the sun with my eyes closed and I would see all kinds of colors and shapes. It was always so peaceful. Now my special time is sitting down at English Bay and looking out at the water where all the big ships sit waiting to be loaded or unloaded. At night it is like a little city out there and usually on the weekend there can be up to 20 ships out there. It always seems so peaceful.
I did the same when I lived in English Bay in the 60's.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
9/7/2019 8:28 pm

    Quoting  :

Ah yes......anchored in a little bay......


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
9/7/2019 8:30 pm

Thank you lovely ladies for acknowledging the gratitude.......