The Wonders of Gratitude

The Wonders of Gratitude
Author: Kwaku S. Darkwa
Publisher: Vike Springs Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781999850951

We are all blessed to different degrees in life. There are countless numbers of people praying earnestly for the things we take for granted daily. It is important to realise that the most valuable things in life are given to us freely, and many of us fail to appreciate and be thankful for these. Ingratitude for 'little' things locks up our 'big' blessings and deprives us of the power to live fully and enjoy the present. As we develop a heart of gratitude, the spiritual dimensions of life will truly open up to us. The wonders of gratitude open our eyes to the myriad of blessings that having a thankful heart will bring our way. It helps us appreciate the 'little' we have today and positions to receive all that tomorrow will bring to us.

Bring Gratitude

Bring Gratitude
Author: Karl Staib
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-06-09
Genre: Gratitude
ISBN: 9781977845498

Seeing my father in his hospital bed, I realized how much joy my father had missed out on. When I was growing up, he was always so busy working. I don't think he took the time to appreciate the simple things until way later in life. Even in his last few months, his frustration with traffic, people, and the hospital dictated his happiness levels.I knew that I needed to appreciate life more. It was possible, but I lacked an important skill-one I hadn't learned in the first forty years of my life. That skill was being grateful every chance I had.I started by focusing on the big things in my life, then kept going deeper to enjoy the little things. Along the way, my productivity and happiness grew. My gratitude practice healed me in the midst of one of the toughest years I've ever experienced.

My Amazing Day

My Amazing Day
Author: Karin Fisher-Golton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 9780989614511

This book for ages 0-3 follows a young child's day illuminating the amazing qualities of everyday activities. The book ends with a meaningful, age-appropriate expression of gratitude, and a fun opportunity to connect each "thank you!" with its related activity earlier in the book.

The Payoff Principle

The Payoff Principle
Author: Alan Zimmerman
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626341745

Where do you hope to go with your life, your career, and your relationships? How will you muster the energy to keep on keeping on, in the good times and the bad? What skills do you have to learn—and then use—to make sure you get the payoffs you really want in your professional life and your personal life? The problem with so many positive-thinking books and self-help routines is that they don’t give you the whole formula. The Payoff Principle gives you that formula—Purpose + Passion + Process = Payoff—and then works as your guidebook, teaching you how to apply the formula to achieve success at work, at home, and everywhere you go. When you find purpose in what you do, exhibit passion for the outcome, and master the process to make it happen, you produce the payoffs you want, need, and deserve. Plenty of people have done exactly that, whether consciously and deliberately or accidently and luckily. But, you don’t have to depend on luck anymore. You have a formula for getting what you want. You have a practical set of strategies guaranteed to deliver greater happiness and success than you’ve ever experienced. All you have to do now is read The Payoff Principle to learn how to implement the formula to experience the new-and-complete you.

Gratitude

Gratitude
Author: Melody Beattie
Publisher: M J F Books
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781567313673

Explores how gratitude can work miracles in our lives, transforming negative, self-defeating thoughts into recognition of the gifts life has to offer. Teaches how to say thanks for the way things are and to recognize the lessons in every experience.

Wonder Where All the Wonder Went?

Wonder Where All the Wonder Went?
Author: Ronald Higdon
Publisher: Energion Publications
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1631997521

"Just the facts." "The numbers don't lie." "Get your beliefs right!" Can you have everything clearly laid out, knowing you are right, and still be missing out? Ron Higdon takes a look at what drives awe and wonder in our lives and what we might be missing if we get lost in the data, or in the troubles of our time, or even in the tremendous variety of entertainment that is available. Overwhelmingly so! He treats the keeping of wonder in our lives as both a gift and an achievement, or perhaps as a gift that must be put to use. What attitudes are helpful? What attitudes are not? This book has ideas that will transform you if you allow them to. It is practical and built on a life-time of experience as a pastor, a student, and as simply a human being. This book will provide in great detail what it means to be able to see the wonders of life and the world through Kingdom glasses. It spells out the twenty-one basic principles of the Sermon on the Mount that will keep you seeing wonders in the ordinary and in the not so ordinary. It will transform the way you see and what you see. And, in the process, you may even find yourself transformed.

A Portrait of Gratitude

A Portrait of Gratitude
Author: Carole Telman
Publisher: Word Alive Press
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1486607187

A Portrait of Gratitude will guide you through the art gallery of life, explaining the exhibits of an artistic God. In these pages, you will be given an opportunity to reflect upon and study the biblical thank offering, a reflection about what it means for a believer to live out a life of gratitude for God's mercy and goodness in his or her life. The book is broken down into four easy to read sections to guide you through the galleries of the Bible and see the many inspiring examples God gives us through biblical characters. It is designed for Christians, to strengthen their walk with God, help them learn about the historical use of the thank offering, and grasp how its example can be applied to life in today's modern world.

Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck
Author: Margaret Feinberg
Publisher: Worthy Books
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1617951501

Let's be honest: it's far too easy to go through day-to-day life without a sense of the mystery, the marvel, or the awe of God's presence. Have you ever felt your relationship with God isn't as vibrant as you want it to be? Have you ever felt like God seemed far away -- even in the midst of devotions, prayer, and church? We Were Created for Wonder You were created and designed to experience wonder. Woven into the fabric of our humanity is an innate ability and desire for the wonder of God. It's felt in the moments when you watch the sun melt behind the horizon, when you reach out to cradle a baby and smell the sweet scent of new life, when you can't help but smile as you witness two wrinkled souls renew their vows to each other. Such moments remind us we were made for something more than deadlines and debt, carpools and coffee breaks. Yet despite such wondrous moments, we can still find ourselves going through the motions of faith. Whether you're: A long time follower of Jesus or still figuring Him out Unemployed, overly-employed, or an entrepreneur A creator, innovator, or conformist Grumpy, ebullient, grey-haired or bed-head An average Joe or have-a-gym-membership-but-never-go A superhero (of any era), supermom, superdad, super grand, super great grand, or don't feel particularly super at all No matter who you are or where you've been -- if you've lived a life where you've seen it all, done it all, or feel like you're past it all -- God still longs to take your breath away. Isaiah 29:4 records God's desire for you: "Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder." Do you see it? God is busting at the seams to display His glory, power, and might in your life. And He wants to give you the greatest gift of all -- Himself. Yet why do we pass by the wonder of God unaware?

A Theology of Gratitude

A Theology of Gratitude
Author: Mona Siddiqui
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009198408

"How, from a theological standpoint, should we make sense of gratitude? This rich interdisciplinary volume is the first concertedly to explore theologies of gratitude from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. While the available literature has tended to rhapsodize gratitude to God and others as both a virtue and an obligation, this book by contrast offers something new by detailing ways in which gratitude is complicated by inequality: even to the point of becoming a vice. Gratitude now emerges as something more than a virtue and other than merely transactional. It can be a burden, bringing about indebtedness and an imbalance of power; but it may also be a resonant source of reconciliation and belonging. Topics discussed cover the personal and political dimensions of gratitude, including such issues as justice, multiculturalism, racism, imperialism, grief, memory and hope. The book assembles, from different traditions, some of the leading theologians of our times"--