Gratitude

On the theme of Thanksgiving, here are a handful of gratitude-centered quotes I found…

  • The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.  ~H.U. Westermayer
  • If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.  ~Meister Eckhart
  • There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.  ~Robert Brault
  • When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.  Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?  ~G.K. Chesterton
  • I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton
  • You say grace before meals.  All right.  But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.  ~G.K. Chesterton
  • If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.  ~Frank A. Clark
  • The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!  ~Henry Ward Beecher
  • I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.  ~Benjamin Disraeli
  • There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.  ~R.H. Blyth
  • Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.  ~Estonian Proverb
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.  ~Aldous Huxley
  • When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.  ~Chinese Proverb
  • Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.  ~William Arthur Ward
  • Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.  ~Author Unknown

Any words there you’re thankful for?

Church Site

We’ve finally succeeded at overhauling our church website.  For a non-techie like myself, this feels major.  Not done yet, but it’s great to have something more attractive and usable.

Add a bookmark if you like: www.warmwelcome.ca.

I Love Dragons

Seriously, is there a better show on TV than Dragon’s Den?  Unlikely.  The only thing that beats it is my weekly CFL dose.  And I’m sure the Dragons could even put a beating on the Eskimos this year!

If you’ve never watched an episode, it might be time.  Wednesdays on CBC, my friend.

Prayer for Christopher Hitchens

Did you pray for Christopher Hitchens recently?  I did.

Not sure what I’m talking about?  Now you can be.

Two Years Old

One of the sweetest girls I know turned two today.  Love you, my little one!