Thanks

Gladly found in the rear of the mailbox this Saturday morning…

Every expectation is a resentment waiting to happen...we’re soon going to resent it when we don’t get what we think we deserve...Everything is a gift. All twenty-four hours today are total gift. We move from the world of merit and disappointment into the wonderful world of grace. And in the world of grace, everything is free. – Fr. Richard Rohr

The reason any of us woke up this morning had very little to do with us and everything to do with the gifts of infinite possibility unfolding from an infinite potential into each moment by moment instant. We were born into this world to learn how to say “Thank you” to each of those moments.

Each of us is the product of a great, flowing river of continuities. Just as our mother and father live inside us, so do generations upon generations of mothers and fathers before them. Part of our task is to discover how all our ancestors inform our lives—and the same holds true for all forms of life, for we have been shaped not only by human ancestors but also by the environments in which they lived. — Joan Halifax