To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
– Johannes A. Gaertner

I just found this quotation and I thought it was perfect for this day. I am so very grateful for all the people who have touched my life this year. I am grateful for close friends and family, but also for my clients and students who so often teach me as much or more than I teach them.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have had this year to take workshops from some amazing world-wide healers, including Byron Katie, Esther and Jerry Hicks, and Lindsay Kenny.

I am grateful for the spiritual lessons I have learned this year, sometimes in unusual ways. By beginning to accept my mother’s condition (of physical and mental limitations), I have sometimes seen a fiercely independent, intelligent woman accept kind support from caregivers that she often calls her “good friends.”

Just a few days ago, a dear old friend passed away. Although I wasn’t in touch with her in recent years, I remember with great fondness her gentle, loving spirit and great faith. I was told that she faced her own death with great courage and acceptance because she believed without question that her life would continue on another plane.

What are you grateful for? I would love to know.

Blessings,

Kiya