Gratitude.As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. , some thoughts on the spiritual practice of gratitude Gratitude agrimony traditional symbol for gratitude. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 172] Androcles because he had once extracted a thorn from its paw, the lion refrained from attacking Androcles in the arena. [Rom. Lit. from Henri Hen·ri , Robert 1865-1929. American painter whose realistic works aligned him with a group of painters, known as the Eight, or the Ashcan School, who decried the artificiality and sentimentality of American painting at the turn of the century. J.M. Nouwen: "To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives--the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections--that requires hard spiritual work. "Still, we are only truly grateful people when we can say thank you to all that has brought us to the present moment. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for. "Let us not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we ate now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God." (Quoted in Seeking Peace by Johann Christoph Arnold
Christoph Arnold (December 17, 1650—April 15, 1695) was a German amateur astronomer. Born in Sommerfeld near Leipzig, Arnold was a farmer by profession. , Plume) |
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