 JUNE 2025 NEWSLETTERHi everyone! First of all, welcome to new subscribers. I’m so glad you are receiving my Daily Gratitude Reflections and once-a-month enewsletters. This enews is about JOY. (Yes, for those who are really paying attention, April’s topic was also about Joy. I believe we can’t ever have enough.) And I know Gratitude and Joy are soul sisters! Joy and gratitude are so closely related. If I feel joy, I am grateful for whatever prompted it. If I feel gratitude, I am most likely feeling happy. And Joy is an inside job. If you are feeling sadness instead of joy, please reply and let me know. We can have a chat, and I might have some answers and suggestions to help and guide you. I would love to hear from you. Recently, I finished facilitating a Book Study Group using a deep and wonderful book Living with Joy by Sanaya Roman. We all found ways to expand joy in our lives. I’ll share some of my favorite delightful affirmations from the book. I highly recommend her book. Also, in May, I attended a lovely workshop by Lara Brezezinski, another CSL practitioner. Her workshop was called Igniting Deep Joy from Within, How to Cultivate a Life of Joy. She is a joy enthusiast, dedicated to spreading more joy in the world. I noticed that the rest of the day, I felt light, airy and filled with more joy and happiness.
 M AY 2025 NEWSLETTERActing As If..A few years back, I discovered another powerful gratitude practice. This goes above and beyond being grateful for what IS in your life, in the present moment. For several years, I have been applying this new idea in my life with great results. What it involves is writing a letter to Spirit or Your Higher Power, not only expressing thankfulness for the blessings in your life right now, also making sure to include writing about what you are thankful for in the future, as if it has already happened. It is affirming to know that Spirit is listening, and watching things come to pass as imagined and written down. This gratitude practice definitely works! Recently, I shared this practice with a friend who was fretting in advance about a future move to another place. She listened to me, and tried it, and feels much more peace about the move. And thanked me. I have told many others about writing about future things to be thankful for, and she is the one person I know about who tried it and feels completely grateful to have learned about it. Give it a try.
|  “Look closely at the present you are constructing; it should look like the future you are dreaming.” Alice Walker How completely grateful I am to watch what I am dreaming come to fruition. There is such power in knowing we can manifest what we desire, if we don’t hang it up with conflicting thoughts, or a belief that we don’t deserve. I firmly believe in the potential of visualizing and visioning, and I delight in watching as Life says an enthusiastic YES! Deborah Perdue from Daily Gratitude Reflections Vol. 2 “Thank the past for all the lessons it taught you; anticipate the future for all the blessings it has in store for you,” |
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