“[G]ratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton –
Wishing you happiness doubled by wonder this week.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“There was a warm sunset over the wooded valleys,
a yellowish tinge on the pines.
Reddish dun-coloured clouds like dusky flames stood over it. . .
Before, I walked in the ruts of travel;
now I adventured.”
A French saying commonly attributed to writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr says, “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns: I am grateful that thorns have roses.” G.K. Chesterton made the same point in a different way: “An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” We can choose to see thorns or roses, inconveniences or adventures. We might as well choose roses and adventures.
Pay attention. See adventure. Nurture peace, cultivate loving kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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For my posts on life, faith, and the mystery we call God, link here.
Text and photos © 2017 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.