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Tag: Gratitude

Featured Poetry

Deja Carr – We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You

May 3, 2026May 1, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Deja Carr, poet and musician, creates a altar to gratitude and mixed blessings with her "We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You".

Tagged abundance, blessings, God, grateful, Gratitude, Poem, poet, Poetry, renewal, spring, springtime, thankfulnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Elias Tucker – Corona del Mar

February 1, 2026January 31, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Elias Tucker offers much more than a love poem with his "Corona del Mar". He offers praise and gratitude to God.

Tagged awe, beach, california, God, grateful, Gratitude, life, Life is beautiful, love, love poem, ocean, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, shoreLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joe Martyn Ricke – Thanksgiving (A Camino Poem)

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Texas poet and singer/songwriter Joe Martyn Ricke's "Thanksgiving (A Camino Poem)" is both a poem and a prayer.

Tagged camino, camino de santiago, Gratitude, Meditation, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, thanksgivingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Patrick Trombly – Betsy

October 19, 2025October 17, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Re-emerging poet Patrick Trombly wakes us up and smears us with light and disarray with his postmodern poem "Betsy".

Tagged awaken, God, Gratitude, Light, morning, Morning Poem, Poem, poet, Poetry, thankfulness, wake, wakingLeave a comment
James Crews
Poetry

James Crews – Winter Morning

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 Sam Shapiro

The art of gratitude is the art of paying attention, and when we incline our minds toward gratitude, gratitude blossoms.

Tagged attention, Gratitude, Happiness, mindfulness, naikan, pause, Poem, Poetry, Practice, thank you3 Comments
Gregg Krech
Book Bits

(The Japanese Art of Naikan, and) Thanking Our Mitochondria

November 28, 2024November 28, 2024 Vanessa Able

Gregg Krech directs gratitude to some of the most essential and overlooked entities in our lives - thank you, tiny, hard-working mitochondria!

Tagged contemplation, Gratitude, introspection, looking inward, mitochondria, naikan, Practice, thanks, thanksgivingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Arvilla Fee – A Serengeti Cornfield

May 5, 2024May 2, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Seasoned with gratitude and appreciation, the imagery evoked in Arvilla Fee's "A Serengeti Cornfield" sticks to the ribs.

Tagged Compassion, grateful, Gratitude, history, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, tree, worthLeave a comment
Brother David Steindl Rast
Book Bits

‘How Can I Best Serve the World?’: Brother David Steindl-Rast on Finding Our True Vocation

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Vanessa Able

Brother David on doing what you love, being aware of your gifts, and bringing your best self to the table.

Tagged bliss, discernment, gifts, Gratitude, Longing, Silence, vocation, WisdomLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Amanda Niamh Dawson – Prayer for a Mantis

November 5, 2023November 2, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

An encounter with a praying mantis on a doorstep becomes a lesson in compassion and gratitude in Amanda Niamh Dawson's "Prayer for a Mantis".

Tagged blessing, Compassion, Gratitude, mantis, mindfulness, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, praying mantis4 Comments
Featured Poetry

B.R. Wilder – Oh Mother, do not give me bliss

October 2, 2022September 30, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

To be filled with gratitude for life and experience in its entirety--that is the meaning conveyed in B.R. Wilder's poem "Oh Mother, do not give me bliss".

Tagged awareness, bliss, entirety, Experience, experiencing, Gratitude, life, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment

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