FROM OUR JOURNAL PAGES:peg: I was thinking about gratitude and wondering why we aren’t walking “gratitude journals.” I think it’s because to be grateful we have to be attentive and aware, and usually we human beings are neither. By focusing and noting all the things for which we are grateful, we flex our “attention muscles” and begin to notice all the little things that bring joy everyday.
chuck: This work began by reflecting on the word gratitude. The spiritual practice of gratitude can be considered a state of mind going even further to being a way of life. Gratitude links us in relationship to the divine in every part of creation. By practicing gratitude in both good and challenging experiences, we bless others and in turn are blessed. This personal and social renewal also opens our imagination – and more specifically, the imaginative intersection where spirit and artistic vision meet. By starting with gratitude, we risk reconnecting beauty to goodness and truth.
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