By being on this giving and gratitude frequency of emotion, I am also recieving all I could ever ask for. I always have everything I need, and while life can’t always be peachy, I never, ever forget to be thankful.

Blessings on this Thanksgiving!

~Amanda~
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Salaams,
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a small brother….

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No. You can see … and the hundred million receptors I have placed in your eyes enable you to enjoy the magic of a leaf, a snowflake, a pond, an eagle, a child, a cloud, a star, a rose, a rainbow … and the look of love. Count one blessing.

Are you deaf? Can a baby laugh or cry without your attention?

No. You can hear … and the twenty-four thousand fibers I have built in each of your ears vibrate to the wind in the trees, the tides on the rocks, the majesty of an opera, a robin’s plea, children at play … and the words I love you. Count another blessing.

Are you mute? Do your lips move and bring forth only spittle?

No. You can speak … as can no other of my creatures, and your words can calm the angry, uplift the despondent, goad the quitter, cheer the unhappy, warm the lonely, praise the worthy, encourage the defeated, teach the ignorant … and say I love you. Count another blessing.

Are you paralyzed? Does your helpless form despoil the land?

No. You can move. You are not a tree condemned to a small plot while the wind and world abuses you. You can stretch and run and dance and work, for within you I have designed five hundred muscles, two hundred bones, and seven miles of nerve fiber all synchronized by me to do your bidding. Count another blessing.

Are you unloved and unloving? Does loneliness engulf you, night and day?

No. No more. For now you know love’s secret, that to receive love it must be given with no thought of its return. To love for fulfillment, satisfaction, or pride is no love. Love is a gift on which no return is demanded. Now you know that to love unselfishly is its own reward. And even should love not be returned it is not lost, for love not reciprocated will flow back to you and soften and purify your heart. Count another blessing. Count twice.

Is your heart stricken? Does it leak and strain to maintain your life?

No. Your heart is strong. Touch your chest and feel its rhythm, pulsating, hour after hour, day and night, thirty-six million beats each year, year after year, asleep or awake, pumping your blood through more than sixty thousand miles of veins, arteries, and tubing … pumping more than six hundred thousand gallons each year. Man has never created such a machine. Count another blessing.

Are you diseased of skin? Do people turn in horror when you approach?

No. Your skin is clear and a marvel of creation, needing only that you tend it with soap and oil and brush and care. In time all steels will tarnish and rust, but not your skin. Eventually the strongest of metals will wear, with use, but not that layer that I have constructed around you. Constantly it renews itself, old cells replaced by new, just as the old you is now replaced by the new. Count another blessing.

Are your lungs befouled? Does your breath of life struggle to enter your body?

No. Your portholes to life support you even in the vilest of environments of your own making, and they labor always to filter life-giving oxygen through six hundred million pockets of folded flesh while they rid your body of gaseous wastes. Count another blessing.

Is your blood poisoned? Is it diluted with water and pus?

No. Within your five quarts of blood are twenty-two trillion blood cells and within each cell are millions of molecules and within each molecule is an atom oscillating at more than ten million times each second. Each second, two million of your blood cells die to be replaced by two million more in a resurrection that has continued since your first birth. As it has always been inside, so now it is on your outside. Count another blessing.

Are you feeble of mind? Can you no longer think for yourself?

No. Your brain is the most complex structure in the universe. I know. Within its three pounds are thirteen billion nerve cells, more than three times as many cells as there are people on your earth. To help you file away every perception, every sound, every taste, every smell, every action you have experienced since the day of your birth, I have implanted, within your cells, more than one thousand billion billion protein molecules. Every incident in your life is there waiting only your recall. And, to assist your brain in the control of your body I have dispersed, throughout your form, four million pain-sensitive structures, five hundred thousand touch detectors, and more than two hundred thousand temperature detectors. No nation’s gold is better protected than you. None of your ancient wonders are greater than you.

You are my finest creation.

Within you is enough atomic energy to destroy any of the world’s great cities … and rebuild it.

Are you poor? Is there no gold or silver in your purse?

No. You are rich! Together we have just counted your wealth. Study the list. Count them again. Tally your assets!

Why have you betrayed yourself? Why have you cried that all the blessings of humanity were removed from you? Why did you deceive yourself that you were powerless to change your life? Are you without talent, senses, abilities, pleasures, instincts, sensations, and pride? Are you without hope? Why do you cringe in the shadows, a giant defeated, awaiting only sympathetic transport into the welcome void and dampness of hell?

You have so much. Your blessings overflow your cup … and you have been unmindful of them, like a child spoiled in luxury, since I have bestowed them upon you with generosity and regularity.

Answer me.

Answer yourself.

What rich man, old and sick, feeble and helpless, would not exchange all the gold in his vault for the blessings you have treated so lightly.

Know then the first secret to happiness and success – that you possess, even now, every blessing necessary to achieve great glory. They are your treasure, your tools with which to build, starting today, the foundation for a new and better life.

Therefore, I say unto you, count your blessings and know that you already are my greatest creation. This is the first law you must obey in order to perform the greatest miracle in the world, the return of your humanity from living death.

And be grateful for your lessons learned in poverty. For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much … and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

Where are the handicaps that produced your failure? They existed only in your mind.

Count your blessings."
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http://www.wowzone.com/godmemo.htm

The more that I’m grateful for what I have, the more I can appreciate life in the present moment. The more I live in the present moment, the greater I can build the stepping stones for a great future. I’ve also found that by having an attitude of gratitude; that I’m more focused on the solutions, than the problems. So, it’s important to remember the power of gratitude. http://www.squidoo.com/Having-An-Attitude-of-Gratitude-Will-Change-Your-Life-Forever
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The Benefits of Gratitude Is A Life Of Blessings http://www.law-of-abundance-living.com/attitude-of-gratitude.html
An attitude of gratitude and words of thanks are just ways to show appreaciation for what you possess, and all the blessings you have received. The more gratitude you show for your blessings–the more the power of gratitude is expressed.
But the power of gratitude, and the power of the law of gratitude, is like all the other universal laws, in order to get results… you have to conform. This simply means… whatever you impress on your subconscious mind–will be expressed in reality.
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Giving Thanks – 5 Ways to Develop an Attitude of Gratitude http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=giving_thanks_5_ways_to_develop_an_attitude_of_gratitude

Keep a Gratitude Journal – It is easy to list all that didn’t go our way each day but it can be just as easy to list what did. Keeping a journal that allows you to list 5 things daily that you are grateful for helps maintain a daily focus on all that is good in your life. Entering a quick entry before bed provides an opportunity to end the day on a positive note no matter what challenges you faced along the way. Focusing daily on all that you have and did that was right, good, positive and encouraging keeps the spotlight on the benefits of your goals but also on seeing the good in each day and each person in your life as well.

Use your abilities to help others – Whether you have been a Boy Scout or not, we can all commit to help other people at all times. Each of us has a unique set of gifts and talents that someone else could benefit from when we use them to help. There are many ways you can be helpful and use your abilities in a formal way. Perhaps you have a larger amount of time to give and could get involved in a longer term commitment such as helping build homes with your local Habitat for Humanity or mentoring a child through Big Brothers Big Sisters. However, if you don’t have that kind of time to commit, there are plenty of small things that can make a big difference in your life as well as the life of someone else. I’m sure there is someone in your neighborhood or community that needs some help raking leaves this fall or someone that could use a hand hauling groceries to their car. I’m sure if you think about what you enjoy doing and what your abilities are, you can think of simple ways to make a difference in the life of someone else by taking a little time to help and as you do, be sure to be grateful for the ability and health to do it.

Give up negative self-talk – Self-talk is the dialogue that we have in our heads as we think and process about situations we encounter throughout our day. Sometimes that self-talk even comes out in how we talk with others. It can make you come off looking conceded if you are a teenage girl that goes around telling everyone that you know you look good. However, for most of us, especially if there are things about ourselves or our day that we don’t like, the self deprecating things come out that others would never think if we didn’t say them out loud. Comments such as "I know I look horrible today, I knew I shouldn’t wear this outfit," or "I just shouldn’t talk because I know I sound stupid." Whether you say negative things aloud or just think them doesn’t matter as much as the fact that you are reinforcing negative thoughts and ideas about yourself. You can change this pattern but you have to realize you are doing it and make a conscious choice to stop beating yourself up.

Focus less on the lives and activities of others – When we focus on the success of others, many times we diminish our own success. If our friend has lost 5 pounds and we have lost 3, we quickly diminish our success in favor of theirs. The good in someone else’s life should not diminish the good in our own and won’t unless we allow it to. It is only a small step from admiration to jealousy when we focus on the new job promotion our brother got or the new car our neighbor is now driving especially when we are comparing it to our own situation. By focusing less on others, we are better able to keep our eyes on our prize and the road we have already traveled including the rocks, hills, and valleys we have crossed along the way.

Say Thank You – We teach our children to say thank you but how good are we at it ourselves. Saying thank you, especially when someone serves you, can go a very long way to making your day better as well as the person you are thanking. The person that takes your order and brings your food is serving you and deserves your thanks. The person holding the door for you is serving you and deserves your thanks. Those seem easy enough to remember to offer thanks for but what about the person who serves you with encouragement or support. Do we remember to thank them for their help and assistance? Those two simple words can go a long way to showing your gratitude to the service of others and when given freely, can be very freeing as well.

ME!

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Unhappy People Tend To Draw More Unhappiness

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i agree with Skye… oh what a sweetheart she is and i am grateful for her contributions and the contributions of others here in this forum. it is fun reading your replies…

i hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving…
Alhamdulillah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LiyE8-MokY&feature=fvw
God Bless us all everyone…
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*lots of good answers
frae everyone ….*

i find love and gratitude
shines a light-supreme in
all of us & sweetens the lives
of all our brothers and sisters.

( Thank you for ye loving post )

*Love-Sparkles-n-Blessings t’ye*
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