Amanda's Daily Joy
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY: COMPASSION AT HOME
“The Lord is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.”
Psalms 103:8
Okay, these are the easier days. This activity is so important and there are so many people involved that you have two days to practice.
It’s easy to have compassion for our children. We give them endless space to be who [...]
SUNDAY AND SATURDAY: SELF-LESS-NESS
“In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”
The Buddha
This is a two-day exercise. For two days, try to focus only on others, and how you might help, support and bless them and allow God’s grace to flow through you to them.
These two days are not about you at all. [...]
SATURDAY: HEART GRATITUDE
“It isn’t what you have in your pocket
that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.”
Anonymous
Do we really have any idea of the truly immense nature of our hearts?
People think the brain is the most important organ in the body but it’s not. The heart rules the rest of the body and [...]
FRIDAY: NATURE GRATITUDE
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.”
Theologian and musician Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
How many times have you found yourself refreshed, restored and rejuvenated by a walk in the forest, by a stream or beside the ocean? Nature is full of invisible forces working for you all the time to [...]
THURSDAY: BODY GRATITUDE DAY
“Grace isn’t a little prayer you recite before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”
Writer Jackie Windspear
Your mission today is to spend the entire day expressing gratitude to your body! You are to say nothing negative, no matter what your stomach, thighs or face look like! Treat your body with respect today, love it, [...]
WEDNESDAY: “THE PAST” GRATITUDE
“Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to?”
Anonymous
Here is your big chance: Today your mission—should you choose to accept it—is to work through all the big events in your life that have been negative and reframe them.
Review past relationships, past difficult life [...]
TUESDAY: HOME GRATITUDE
“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.”
Playwright Bertolt Brecht, from the play Jungle of Cities, 1924
Today is home gratitude day. Find as many things as you can that you are thankful for in your home: your family, your pets, your garden, plants, neighbors or community, your [...]
MONDAY: WORKPLACE GRATITUDE:
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
Author and playwright Cynthia Ozick
What things are you thankful for in your place of work? Go to work today with the specific intention of finding all the things at work you could be thankful for—and then be thankful for them! Your boss, your [...]
SUNDAY: GRATITUDE TO GOD
“I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.”
Helen Keller, author of “The Light in My Darkness,” published by Chrysalis: West Chester, Penn.
Isn’t it amazing how a power outage in winter can make us so grateful for the power that surges through our houses every day? [...]
