Mary O’Malley – Isn’t it wonderful that even with most of our holidays celebrating someone or some event, we have a holiday that celebrates gratitude!!
Think of the last time you felt a spontaneous wave of gratitude. Feel how it uplifts you and opens your heart. The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia, which means grace or gratefulness. It means appreciation for whatever life gives you. Research has shown that gratitude not only helps us – our bodies, our minds and our hearts – but it also affects the people we meet throughout the day in a positive way.
Our minds are so used to living in a state of want…wanting our bodies, our relationships, our children, our finances, and on and on to be different than what they are. Gratitude steps you out of that world of want and back into your heart, which knows a nourishing connection with life as it is. Of the 3 core ways to access your heart – loving kindness, forgiveness and gratitude, gratitude seems to be the easiest for people to access. Continue reading “A New Look at Gratitude”
Charles Hugh Smith – Beneath the euphoric hoopla of a trade deal with China is the cold reality that the divorce has already happened and any trade deal just signs the decree. The divorce of China and the U.S. was mutual; each had used up whatever benefits the tense marriage had offered, and each is looking forward to no longer being dependenton the other.
Makia Freeman – With new information arising weekly and even daily that keeps shining the light on the audacious pedophilia, sex-trafficking and blackmail operation run by the disappeared or suicided pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Fletch Daniels – The Democrats have twisted themselves into a Schiffian Knot, a modern-day unsolvable puzzle.