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September 25th, 2024

9/25/2024

ThE SUpERpOwER OF GRATITUDE

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

Today, I acknowledge the golden light of autumn.
I am in gratitude for this slowing-down season, a bridge to winter time.
As we step into a time of harvest, I reflect on all the bounty of this past year.
I am so grateful for the times I have spent with my dear family, those far away, and those right here with me including pets!
I am so thankful for the joy and forgetting-of-time I relish at the river in the summer, and whenever I am immersed in nature.
I am thankful for every way I have grown in inner strength, love, peace and trust – through challenges, and through my daily contemplation.

I relish the abundant cornucopia of good that is my sacred life. So thankful.
By Deborah Perdue, from Daily Gratitude Reflections, Vol. 2

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Wishing you a wondrous upcoming October filled with blessings!

Love and Light!
Deborah, Your Gratitude Gal

Living in the Oneness is a goal of mine. I get there, immersed in peace and bliss often with my morning spiritual practices, which I will share here along with other ideas for you. Maybe some of what I offer will resonate with your own heart and soul. You can give any of the ideas here a chance. It is my goal to share love and light in this world, and to help transform the world by shining light where there is darkness whenever I can.

7 UPLIFTING PRACTICES

1.Start each day with spirituality. Whatever your religion or path to your Higher Power is, devote time each morning to focus on that. Make your coffee or tea, and settle in for some quality God time. You can start with just a few minutes, and maybe expand it as you feel called. Here are some things I do each morning, you can pick and choose. I read and contemplate pages from inspirational books, some of them Daily Guides. I sometimes listen to quiet instrumental background music that sets the mood to be silent and listen. I meditate some mornings longer than others. There are many amazing meditations you can find on YouTube or Insight Timer (an app I recommend).You can change it up, or keep listening to the same ones that lift your heart. Each morning I pray as well, for people who have asked me, and for my own life. When I do these practices, long or short, I feel connected to the Oneness. I feel connected to God.

2.Take Stillness Moments throughout the day. You can use a timer, on the hour for example, and that will remind you to take time to center yourself. This can really helpif you’re always busy and running around, and even if you’re not. Breathe and be thankful.

3.Take meditative walks. Being in nature rejuvenates me, and I savor the beauty of the seasons. Right now, fall leaves are starting to change here in the U.S. I know in the Southern hemisphere, Spring is beginning. Watch what’s around you, be present. Feel the Oneness in the living world, we are all part of it and when we take time to notice, we get anchored in unity and harmony.

4.Enjoy a gratitude practice. You can journal, and/ or you can stop and give thanks at any time. You canwrite things down, or speak them silently or aloud. It’s a powerful practice to be thankful right when you awake, and before you go to sleep. I have been a gratitude aficionado for 15 years or longer, and I can attest to the superpower of appreciating everything. You can never run out! Gratitude can be infinite like the universe upon universe that we live in. It’s definitely an antidote to depression and upset.

5.Learn a Mantra. It can be very helpful to find a mantra, or make one up, that means a lot to you, that you can remember and say to yourself if ever you are feeling bothered or upset by the outside world. Here is one I use: God is the Love that I AM. I repeat it as needed,sometimes during the middle of the night when I wake up and my mind is too active to fall back to sleep.

6.Use Movement Spiritually. Practice yoga, Tai Chi or Chigong. There are YouTube videos you can use to guide you. Dancing is also very freeing. Listen to music you love while moving that body.

7.Try a Burning Bowl Ceremony. Forgiveness and letting go of grievances is so essential to freeing yourself. This practice can be for someone else, or you. Write down things you would like to release or let go of, then have a sacred ceremony and put each piece of paper in a bowl, lighting the paper up to release what no longer serves you until they are all consumed by fire (Obviously be safe doing this!) Alternatively, you could put the pieces of paper in a bowl, and then send them down a river. I have done both, and this is a very powerful way to heal.

September 07th, 2024

9/7/2024

S E P T E M B E R N E W S L E T T E R

Fall is a time of bounty and harvest. Our gardens gift us profusely with apples, pears, pumpkins,
tomatoes and zucchini. Summer is waning in September. How grateful I am for cooler temperatures, the golden autumn light, as leaves start changing to yellow, gold and orange. It’s a time to really savor and appreciate all of the bountiful blessings.

Every day of the year is really a time of bounty. Just look around and you can’t miss the absolute abundance that exists in nature. Watching a PBS special on mammals recently, I became once again filled with awe at the Universe’s ability to create such magnificent diversity in the animal world. I keep learning about mammals I didn’t even know existed, adapting to their environments. For instance, there is an underground mammal named the Star Nosed Mole, whose nose looks like a colorful orange flower. Nearly blind, they
use their noses to feel and touch. So much splendor and diversity in Mother Nature, and in our lives. Wow.

I don’t know about you, but I am not always able to receive all the gifts of abundance that come to me. And I’m not always ready to accept all that the Universe (or Spirit) wants to present to me. A long time ago, I read something that impacted me a lot. Ernest Holnes talked about whether we are ready to accept a thimble full of our good from the ocean of plenty, or if can we accept a bucket, or a waterfall of Good instead? This made a big impression on me. I’ll take the larger vessel to receive my abundance, please.

Still, sometimes I get stuck in lack thinking. At times, I believe there is not enough, this happens most often when looking at a low amount in my checkbook. How can we let the abundance of the universe permeate our being and let go of lack thoughts? I suggest simple positive affirmations “My life is bursting with joy, love and prosperity.” Meditation helps too. Here is one by Jess Heslop on Clearing Negative Blockages & Limiting Beliefs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9j1nVRPe4Q Listening to beautiful music with powerful abundance lyrics helps me too: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cpbUHlpkg

Let’s all open more and more to the amazing unlimited bounty of life and harvest all the good!

Southern Oregon in the Fall. Thank you, subscriber Cindy!

How grand it is to live in a universe with such infinite bounty
I am grateful to live my life opening my arms wider and wider, to receive all the good that is constantly offered to me.

I am thankful for the teeming life on this planet and beyond.

I feel humble when I ponder the diversity and grandeur that has been created.And I gratefully give of the plentiful gifts and love I offer.

By Deborah Perdue, Daily Gratitude Reflections, Vol. 2

My friend Karen Tate is offering a webinar you may be interested in. Here is the link for more info:
https://mailchi.mp/3ad35bcf75e7/tools-for-trans- formation-newsletter-from-karen-tate-12792940

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Present Moment Gratitude

4/9/2024

Thank you to new subscribers who received my free ebook and/or my free PDF of Grace of Gratitude Reflections. My name is Deborah Perdue, and it’s my heart’s calling to share and spread gratitude in the world. Many thanks to my loyal gratitude tribe too!

I completely endorse being thankful for each day. I feel that life is precious and sacred, and to realize that every day is a gift to us, challenges or not, is paramount to happiness and joy and our well-being. If you look around and notice, how could you ever run out of things to be thankful for?! I keep finding more and more to be grateful for, as I keep exercising my gratitude muscle.

“I am blessed in countless ways by gifts from the Divine. I give thanks as I notice the beauty and see the good that surrounds me now.”
Mary Davis

What about being grateful continually? In every moment as well as every day? More from author Mary Davis: “When we keep contact with an inner thank you for the blessings of each day, we are appreciating the gifts of our life exactly as they are. We do this when we notice the joy in a child’s smile, the needed rain falling on thirsty plants, the favorite song on the radio. Every whisper of thanks and appreciation for the sile, the rain and the song brings light the extraordinary riches in the ordinary moments of today. Our sense of lack is replaced by our focus on abundance.” Wow! I’m going to invite in even more thankfulness into my awareness. I will play a song of gratitude in my heart as constantly as I can.

TIPS TO HELP YOU ON YOUR GRATITUDE PATH:

Write in a Gratitude Journal each day and night.

List 5 things that you appreciate it. Mix it up. Keep going. Artist Tara Thelen
and I created a gorgeous Grace of Gratitude Journal. It’s on sale for only $10.00
https://www.graceofgratitude.com/store/c2/Retail_%26_eBooks.html

Listen to Guided Meditations

Here are two choices on YouTube. You can search for more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfD4HaBBc0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovasHL9LfSE

Enjoy Songs of Gratitude

Karen Drucker is truly the Queen of Gratitude songs!
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=9P1L8KnVFhI&list=OLAK5uy_k0g9vmRUN4kYTfzzqYavDoettQECYDmaw&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pL0hWvzZr8g&list=OLAK5uy_k0g9vmRUN4kYTfzzqYavDoettQECYDmaw&index=3

Free Gratitude Gifts for You!

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“There is much to be thankful for each day. Every Dawn as it comes is a holy event and everyday is holy.”
Roy Cook

As I woke up this morning, and saw the tangerines and pinks of the morning sun rising, I felt hope and optimism, and felt that this was a sign.
It truly is a miracle and blessing to wake up to each new day.
And the beauty of creation is beyond phenomenal.
Today, right now, I am so grateful for new beginnings, for the dawn of more love and peace and harmony in the world that is surely coming.
From Day 338 from Daily Gratitude Reflections Vol 2 by Deborah Perdue

Happy Joyful May!

Sending you love and Light! Deborah, Gratitude Gal

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Joy, Joy, Joy – Deep in My Heart!

5/5/2023

Thank you to new subscribers who received my free ebook. My name is Deborah Perdue, and it’s my heart’s calling to share and
spread gratitude in the world. Many thanks to my loyal gratitude tribe too.

Joy is indwelling. It is naturally within us, and always there for us to feel.

For me, being grateful helps me access joy. Right now, in the United States, we are celebrating Spring and it is extra-stunningly beautiful this year. In Oregon, we got a lot of snow and rain which helps the drought situation, and now I am seeing April and soon to-be May flowers everywhere. I am doing a Happy Dance to see the tulips, daffodils,

wisteria, lilacs and more coming soon. Nature always brings joy to my heart. Taking walks in nature brings peace and a deep sense of sacredness to me, and that elicits joy. Some of my other passions include creating art and photography, writing, teaching, swimming, sharing spirituality with like-minded folks, and being a homebody with our pets and my partner. All of this ignites my joy and zest for life. What are your passions?

Letting go of worries, doubts and fears helps us access more joy. If you are sad or grieving, don’t deny it. We need to feel all our emotions and not try to tuck them away. I have found that when I have grieved, the world does start looking brighter eventually. And then joy returns to my heart and soul. I also know that we can simultaneously be sad, and still feel joy. If I have lost a loved one, remembering my times with them can bring a happy smile to my face.

If you are sad or sick and/or just cannot find joy, here are a few ways you might re-discover it.

• Write in a Gratitude Journal each day and night.
List 5 things that you appreciate it. Mix it up. Keep going.

• Guided Meditations – Go to YouTube or Insight Timer (a wonderful phone app). Do a search for Joy – there are many meditations to choose from. And I also recommend Gabby Bernstein’s All is Well 5 minute meditation. I never grow tired of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNVTSpSSPQg

• Create a Vision Board for Joy – Find images or words on the internet or from magazines or calendars. Cut out what speaks to your heart and soul on finding more joy in your life. Put it all together on a big piece of paper and place it where you see it a lot, to amplify your joy and passion.

• Discovery, Exploration & Play – Each week, let yourself enjoy one new thing that brings you joy.
Delve into what brings you passion and joy, and share it with the world. Each of us can affect the world positively by doing what makes our hearts come alive. Be playful and free. Open your heart to be more loving and kind! Giving can help us be more joyful.

“Your purpose is to be joyful. Your purpose is to live with ease. Your purpose is to surrender to the love of the Universe so you can live a happy life. Accept the purpose of love, and your life will radically change this instant.”
Gabrielle Bernstein

Free Gratitude Gifts for You!

Enter to win a FREE Grace of Gratitude Journal!

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I will give out 10 Journals to the first who reply. Please include your mailing address.
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Enjoy a Beautiful Gratitude Meditation by Jess Hysop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfD4HaBBc0I

The Healing Song by Karen Drucker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAocwPRVFsg

UPCOMING ZOOM BOOK STUDY CLASS SPIRITUAL GROWTH: BEING YOUR HIGHER SELF

Facilitated by Deborah Perdue, RScP and assisted by Ron Marshall, RScP
Starts Wed. May 24th, 3:30-5pm U.S. Pacific timefor 6 weeks

As we study this excellent book by Sanaya Roman, your mind will be uplifted, your heart opened, and your body will experience deep sensations of peace.

We will meditate, listen to spiritual music, engage in deep sharing, with questions to ponder and answer together. Participants will learn to work with light for healing and growth, to connect with the Universal Mind for enhanced creativity, and to link with the Higher Will to carry out their higher purpose. Spiritual Growth gives you tools to lift the veils of illusion, see truth, expand and contract time, raise your vibration, achieve higher states of consciousness, open your heart, and know yourself in new, more loving ways. As each of us shifts, we bring more light, love and peace to the world. $90 love offering for the 6 week class. Can be paid $15 each week. Please reply to this email to sign up and/or with questions.

Happy May!
Sending you love, light and joy! Deborah, Gratitude Gal

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ENOUGH!

2/3/2023

“You must think of money and any other material desire or possession simply as an outer symbol of the inner supply.”

John Randolph Price

I have been understanding the idea of abundance on a deeper and deeper level in the last 15 years. I remember a long time ago, a minister spoke to us about the abundance of the Universe – talking about how we can’t count the grains of sand on a beach, or the stars in the sky. Then she was done. I thought she should have a “closing argument” but that was it. Since then, as years go by, I get it. That is evidence enough. We see proof of abundance in Mother Nature – in every square inch of soil, in the sky, in leaves falling in Autumn, new leaves sprouting in Spring, and in Winter’s extravaganza of snowflakes. Abundance is indeed everywhere we look. And I realize we always have abundance in so many ways – our family, friends, love, creativity, joy, peace, harmony, as well as financial abundance. One definition of prosperity is going forward in joy.

I love this knowing! And when I apply it to my own life, I know that there is always always always enough. That has become a mantra for me. I am a freelance book designer, and income ebbs and flows like the ocean’s tides. When I get nervous and afraid about when more money is coming in, thinking lack or scarcity thoughts, I watch the flow stop, literally. We are supplied with everything we need, and need to really embrace this truth.

If I get stuck and start doubting abundance and prosperity, I turn to spiritual readings that up my trust and faith in the absolute enough-ness of life. I affirm the great prosperity of my life. One fantastic book is called The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price (quoted above), with a sure-fire practice that you can do every day to elevate your own prosperity consciousness. I listen to a song which I have provided a link for below, by the gifted New Thought singer/songwriter Karen Drucker and the main refrain is “God is my source. God is my power. God gives me everything I need.” I have been known to listen to this affirming chant over and over again. Without fail, it lifts my spirits. Soon, I have the feeling of the grand, overflowing abundance in the universe again, and start witnessing prosperity again flow into my life. It sounds too simple but having the consciousness of prosperity and abundance is ultra-important to living a rich life.

The photo I have chosen above is the seasonal creek at our home. In wintertime, when it gets gloomy and grey here, after lots of rain, our creek starts rushing with rivulets and waterfalls. The beautiful sound of it is what I hear when I go outside. This is a reminder to me about God’s magnificent, steady bounty.

We can stop the flow of abundance in our minds, and thereby stop the givingness of the Divine. My mantra “There is always always always enough” is proven to me time and time again. Enjoy the free gifts I offer below. Let the Gratitude Reflection I created at the bottom of this newsletter sink in. And if you would like spiritual counseling about this subject, or any other, please email me. I offer a sliding fee scale if you are challenged financially. I am a licensed practitioner for the Centers for Spiritual Living (csl.org), and have been for 17 years now. It would be my honor and pleasure to help you prosper and thrive in any way I can.

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ENJOY KAREN DRUCKER’S SONG “GOD IS MY SOURCE”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

ABUNDANCE IS EVIDENT IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY

How grand it is to live in a universe with such infinite bounty . . .
I am grateful to live my life opening my arms wider and wider, to receive all the good that is constantly offered to me.
I am thankful for the teeming life on this planet and beyond.
I feel humble when I ponder the diversity and grandeur that has been created.
And I gratefully give of the plentiful gifts and love I offer.

A Daily Gratitude Reflection by Deborah Perdue

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How thankful I am for each and every one of you.
Happy, joyful, love-filled February!
Deborah Perdue, Gratitude Gal

JULY GRATITUDE FOR FREEDOM!

7/11/2022

What I know for sure is that freedom is an inside job. As spiritual beings having a human experience, we are all blessed with free will. This means that we are always at choice. This is quite the gift. In my own life, I have sometimes chosen unwisely, yet as I grow in wisdom through the years of my life, I am finding that I choose well, and enjoy more freedom, independence, love, peace and joy.

JUNE GRATITUDE!

7/11/2022

This April and May, Oregon got surprise rain which helps incredibly with our drought situation. Yes, I am thankful! We also got snow and freezing temperatures. Not quite so thankful. You see, we have this gorgeous wisteria that was about to flower. The tender blossoms were so close to full regalia. Then the freeze caused them all to die. I was so sad. I honestly grieved for about three days. It may sound silly, but this is one of the most glorious times in Spring, when the wisteria erupts into full bloom.

Seeking Joy in Life’s Daily (Often Overlooked) Treasures

12/12/2021

**Seeking Joy in Life’s Daily (Often Overlooked) Treasure**

“If you want to feel rich, just count all the gifts you have that don't cost money.”
Proverb

I am so thankful for the gifts of my life, that are free and unfettered. Good health, stable home life, love that abounds, pets that adore, country living, wondrous nature, my own creativity, the ability to give and receive, sparkling night skies and waters, the overall magic and wonder and mystery of life that is always visible when I open my spiritual eyes to see. I am in deep gratitude for the lavish riches of life!

If you want to feel more abundance, if you want to feel more prosperous even if you don't have much money, take time to savor all the things in your life that don't cost anything. Feeling grateful is the antidote to feelings of lack, because we are focusing on what is there, what we have, rather than what we don't. We can take stock of many, many things that are abundant in life when feeling scarcity and immediately feel better. Below is a list of 50 things I am grateful for that don't cost a dime. Join me and make the list longer!

1. Waking up to a new dawn each morning with brand new possibilities
2. A friend who loves me unconditionally
3. Loving and accepting someone unconditionally
4. Taking a walk in nature
5. Sunflowers brightly blooming in the summertime
6. A profusion of Golden Delicious apples on a tree in our yard
7. The beauty of reflections in water
8. A newborn infant's eyes
9. The devoted, unfailing love of a dog or cat

10 Inspired Ways to Quickly Regain Joy and Peace

12/7/2021

10 Inspired Ways to Quickly Regain Joy and Peace

Whenever I nosedive into feeling worried or harried or completely stressed out, I have a surefire method to counteract these undesirable feelings. It works every time! It can be hard to start – I might tell myself I don’t have enough time, or it won’t work, but those are just feeble excuses. When I actually sit down to begin, this practice I’m about to share always helps my mood improve and become more positive. Scientific studies 1 have proven, without a doubt, that if we start focusing on what is right, what feels good to us, what there is to be grateful for, we can and will shift into more happiness, peace, joy and even better health!

I know it sounds almost too good to be true, but it has worked for me over and over again, and in this article, I will share some of my own Top Ten list. And I invite you to try it too.

I call this tool My Grand List of Gratitude. Start a huge list of everything and everyone you are grateful for. I find that I can never run out of things to add – this list can be endless, and even ongoing.

Is There a Difference Between Gratitude and Thankfulness?

11/28/2021

Is There a Difference Between Gratitude and Thankfulness?

Thanksgiving is drawing ever so close, and maybe it is time to re-evaluate our understanding of this celebration, which is held in such high regard by Americans and Canadians alike. At this time of the year, most of us focus on being thankful, which is great and all, but forget about the weightier and more spiritual concept of gratitude. The two terms are used interchangeably, but they are centuries apart when it comes to implication.

So, what is the difference between gratitude and thankfulness?

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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

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Present Moment Gratitude

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Joy, Joy, Joy – Deep in My Heart!

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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ENOUGH!

“You must think of money and any other material desire or possession simply as an outer symbol of the inner supply.”

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ABUNDANCE IS EVIDENT IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY

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