September 21, World Gratitude Day & International Day Of Peace: Send Thanks & Pray For Peace
Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
by Fran Larson
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Give Thanks This Gratitude Day
World Gratitude Day falls on September 21, 2010, and was started in 1977 by the United Nations Meditation Group. There are many ways we can show our gratitude and being grateful even makes you healthy. USA today said "Those who maintain a thankful attitude through life appear to have lower risks of several disorders, including depression, phobias, bulimia and alcoholism."
There are many ways we can show our gratitude:
- Begin a gratitude journal. It will change your life
- Say thank you to people in your life that you are grateful for.
- Take the office staff (doctor, dentist,etc) a treat that they can eat.
- Say a prayer of thanks.
"It's a time to celebrate your existence, passions, local hero's, relatives, friends and all the little things that bring joy into your everyday existence. What do you value? Who do you appreciate? How do you express your gratitude to others?"
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" - William Arthur Ward
"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives." - Terry Lynn Taylor
International Day Of Peace
This subject requires all of us to think about peace and how we can help the world come to a peace movement. Many think this will never happen, but we have to be positive. I think it all starts in each individual heart.
The International Day of Peace was first established in 1981 by a resolution 36/67 of the United Nations General Assembly to coincide with its opening session every September. "The International Day of Peace "is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. And it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12-noon local time. […]And let us pledge to do our utmost to carry out the important decisions on peace taken by last week's 2005 World Summit"(Planetpals.com)
"I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process."
-- Jane Addams
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more.
-- Menachem Begin
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Top-level comments on this article: (7 total)Thanks Fran. It's good to think of peace, and especially to see the waring tendencies, the little attempts to control, within us. If we can see this very clearly just one time, we can become peaceful as a result.Best.....e
Very nice, Fran. Good advice all around. Does anyone observe the International Day of Peace with a cease fire? I wasn't aware of this.
I had a moment today that has kind of shone out, even though it was very short. I was in the supermarket, and I handed some bananas to a young guy to weigh. As he handed them back to me our eyes met. I said thank you, and meant it, he was so beautiful; open-hearted. As I said the words he smiled and my world lit up. It was a few seconds of real connection and recognition.I love your quote from Jane Adams, I think it's true. Thanks for your article, Fran, it made me feel so good about life :)
I love the quote of ''Menachem Begin''Very nice article Fran. We really lack peace these days.You add so much value to SW.
Good article Fran, yes if we only had world peace there would be no stopping us on the road to recovery.Thanks for this article
You inspired me so much, I wanted to start writing about gratitude right here and now! There you go. That's saying something. There is a magic to this topic and your article takes us down that beautiful path. Great job.
Such a wonderful plan, Fran! Leave it up to you to find the light, in the darkest of forests. Your always such a nice read, looking forward to the next. Thank you.
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