Amanda's Thoughts
MONDAY: BE GENEROUS WITH YOUR TIME
Just because you can’t do everything, you should still do everything you can.
Time is one of the most precious commodities we have. Love is the most precious and we should love enough to give our time. This is an investment with an abundant return. After we have passed, it will live on in those in [...]
SUNDAY: BE GENEROUS WITH YOUR SPIRIT
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Altruism is the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Today is your day to be creative and see how you can joyfully be generous and allow your spirit to [...]
SATURDAY—REVERENCE FOR YOUR FOOD
Grace is not just a rote prayer we mindlessly say over our meal; it’s a way of transmuting our food into physical and spiritual nourishment.
Decide that from today on, you will only put the best quality fuel in to power your body. No more sodas, ever! No more diet drinks. No trans fats. Read all [...]
FRIDAY—REVERENCE FOR YOUR BODY
“He who loses his reverence for any part of his life, will lose his reverence for all of his life.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
This is a big day! Hopefully it is the start of a new way of treating your body—the temple that houses your spirit.
I don’t want to hear any laughter about your body being a [...]
THURSDAY—REVERENCE FOR YOUR SOUL AND SPIRIT
“There is a beautiful creature
Living in a hole you have dug”
From “I Heard God Laughing, Poems of Hope and Joy,” translated by Daniel Ladinsky; 1996; 2006, Penguin. Reprinted with permission.
This is your day! The day for you to discover for yourself what a spectacular and awesome being you are. Try not to let judgments and [...]
WEDNESDAY—REVERENCE FOR OTHERS
“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You need only a heart full of grace.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Namaste. That is your meditation for today. Silently greet every person you meet and every animal and plant you encounter with this word. In your imagination, feel [...]
TUESDAY—AWE AND WONDER AND NATURE
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
John Milton (1608-1674)
It’s almost impossible to talk about reverence without mentioning awe and wonder.
PROJECT 1: TO BRING A CONSCIOUSNESS OF AWE, WONDER AND REVERENCE IN NATURE
Go out today and find some aspect [...]
MONDAY—REVERENCE FOR LIFE
“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life, we become good, deep and alive.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Life is a precious gift, which we largely ignore until it is about to be taken away or changed dramatically. A life-threatening illness or event usually transforms a [...]
SUNDAY–REVERENCE FOR GOD, OUR ANGELS AND ALL THE SPIRITUAL BEINGS WHO HELP US
“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.”
John Milton in “Paradise Lost”
No matter what your spiritual belief system, we need to treat God, or your equivalent of God, with awe, wonder and reverence. And we need to do the same with angels, guides, the nature spirits and [...]
SATURDAY—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOPE-ING AND HOPE-FULL
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
Author Barbara Kingsolver
There is a difference between wishing and hoping. Hope without faith [...]
