Friday, October 17, 2014

Silent Gratitude - October 17th


- Thank you! -

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
~ Gladys B. Stern

It is good to be grateful.

A true blessing for our soul to know we have what to be thankful for.

And to be able to acknowledge who we should thank for what we have.

Not just for the things but for what is truly important.

Life, love, joy and the people who make us feel alive, loved and happy.

There are many bloggers doing gratitude posts.

People in Facebook are posting five day challenges of thankfulness.

We fill notebooks with things we are thankful for.

What does it do to me to be grateful?

Is my gratitude silent or do I remember to give thanks?

24 comments:

  1. Those quotes are beautiful. You always post the most inspirational things.

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  2. My first time here, but not my last. These are truly things to think more about. My gratitude is not silent for my Lord always knows I appreciate His love.

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  3. I think both spoken and silent gratitude are important. I try to do both. After all, it really isn't hard to find things to be thankful for if you look! Thanks for linking up on Equipping Godly Women Fellowship Fridays!

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  4. I think there's room for both kinds of gratitude and a balance is good. This is a nice reminder to speak it more often though.

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  5. Such a great reminder as we move toward thanksgiving. I just wrote a post (not yet published) on how gratefulness brought me from bitterness to joy. It is so important to the life of a Christian

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  6. I am not very religious so these don't particularly appeal to me, but I can see from other people's comments that they are very inspiring. Having read several of your posts, I know that you are very thoughtful about your word choice!

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  7. Very nice and inspirational quotes.. thank you!

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  8. I have been writing Thank You cars this week and it really makes me appreciate my wonderful friends. Whenever I am feeling lonely I do something nice for people and feel so much better and grateful.

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  9. These quotes are really great. I love your post they are always so inspirational.

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  10. Sometimes silent gratitude could be a given and the other person knows . It is good to tell people out loud though. I always try to thank people, even for small things.

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  11. When you're busy it's easy to forget to thank those that help you. I try to take the time as much as possible!

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  12. For me, it isn't so important if gratitude is done via posts or silently :)
    Because what matters more is that we are thankful for everything that we have and everything that we have been given + it matters more that we have a grateful attitude every day. I think it makes the world a happier place to live in. I love this post of yours, it's encouraging and inspiring at the same time. Bless your heart, Joanna.

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  13. For me, showing gratitude to someone should be done in a silent matter, not in a boastful mode. We need to be thankful for all the blessing we have and we not need to shout it to the world. God knows if e thank him even is small ways.

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  14. First time I heard about "silent gratitude". I have always been like that. A friend tagged me a couple of weeks ago to give thanks and post them to Facebook. I didn't accept the challenge I thought to myself, I do not usually ask for anything when I pray at night, I just give thanks most of the time. So...

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  15. A really important reminder. I had something had to me happen to me last Christmas where we decided to help a family provide Christmas for their very large family. They knew we were helping and it was fun for my family to pick things out and was awesome to feel like we were helping a family who needed it. When we dropped it off (an entire van full of gifts for 8 people), I was taken aback that she didn't say thank you. Not once. She expected it and said she knew Christmas would be taken care of for them. But no thank you. I figured she was feeling awkward or overwhelmed.
    Then come Christmas and I saw her family had received all the gifts and still no thank you from this woman. It made me feel sad and a bit angry that she couldn't even acknowledge it or say they liked the gifts. These were big gifts, too. American Girl dolls, tablet, jewelry and clothing to name a few.

    But the more I reflected on it, the more I had an epiphany. I was upset because this woman was not appreciative for what I thought was a big deal. Made me stop to think about how mindful I am of being grateful. I have been given so much and although I try to always say thank you, it made me realize that I always need to say thank you to my Heavenly Father, because how does he feel when we don't acknowledge all the wonderful blessings in our lives? Whether they are big or small, we have so many. It was a good reminder to me to show gratitude for everything I have.

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  16. I like the saying you put up here. I like the comment above mine too. There IS always something to be found good in every situation, even ones that initially we might not see it in.

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  17. I really love these sayings as they are they are prayers in my mind. Bless you for sharing.

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  18. It's very good to be grateful. Unfortunately though it's hard to be grateful sometimes when so much is going wrong in my life. Thanks for sharing.

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  19. Being grateful id a good thing. It can be hard to remember to express gratitude but it is such a important thing to do. Let people know how you feel.

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  20. It is nice to show gratitude but I don't believe it is something that has to be shown. When we do something for others we should never expect a thank you. But as a person that is being given something I hope I always show how thankful I am.

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  21. My mother used to quote that Bible verse all the time. What a great post!

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  22. When we do kind things we shouldn't repramand others for not showing gratefulness. Everything we do should be from the heart and w/o expectations that someone will show us they're grateful the way we want them to.

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  23. People need to learn to be more gratitude as a whole. I love these quotes.

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