As the Spirit Moves Me

I’m about to board a bus to upstate New York for the Thanksgiving holiday. I just spent several days in New York City after traveling across country from California. This is the one time of the year when my whole family gets together. It’s our family reunion–and not always a pleasant one. Not everyone gets [...]

November 23rd, 2011 | Tags: blessings, family reunion, giving thanks, gratitude as prayer, Thanksgiving | Category: blessing, Gratitude | Comments (1)

Yesterday I wrote a post about everything being for the good. Interestingly, today when I opened my daily message from Neale Donald Walsch he had written something very similar. He said God wanted me to know: …that it sometimes looks like “one thing after the other,” but really, it is Blessing After Blessing. I know, [...]

May 21st, 2010 | Tags: blessings, conscious creaton, Deliberate Creation, good, Law of Attraction, Neale Donald Walsch, positive thinking | Category: abundance, affirmations, blessing, conscious creation, creative thought, Deliberate Creation, Kabbalah of Conscious Creation, Law of Attraction, positive thinking, when bad things happen | Comments (6)

Many spiritual traditions contain a practice of blessing food prior to eating it. Christians, for example, say grace before a meal. This prayer more often than not thanks God for the food they are about to eat. Jews say a blessing over a particular type of food–one for bread, one for wine, one for cookies [...]

May 7th, 2010 | Tags: blessings, gal Einai Institute, grace, grace after meals, grace before meals, Gratitude, or primi ruach hachayim, Prayer, Rabbi Ginsburgh | Category: blessing, Gratitude, practical spirituality, Prayer, spiritual practice | Comments (3)

It’s a Jewish tradition when someone dies to say, “May his or her memory be for blessing.” The actual honorific is “of blessed memory,” a translation of the Hebrew “zikhrono livrakha” (m.)  or “zikhronah livrakha” (f.). It’s an odd type of statement really. I tend to say, “May his or her memory be a blessing.” [...]

February 24th, 2010 | Tags: blessings, death, grief, memories | Category: blessing, death, Grief and Grieving, when bad things happen | Leave a comment

I think of myself as a pretty grateful person. Most of the people I know consider me someone fairly focused upon gratitude. So, imagine my dismay when a friend called me onto the carpet for being…well…ungrateful. Ack! I was horrified. How could that be, I wondered? It seemed that I hadn’t said I was grateful [...]

February 15th, 2010 | Tags: blessing, blessings, friends, God, Gratitude, thankfulness | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment