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EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
~ by Jewel Diamond Taylor
I live in the space of thankfulness - and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That's because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life. "Say thank you!" Those words from my friend and mentor Maya Angelou turned my life around.
One day about ten years ago, I was sitting in my bathroom with the door closed and the toilet lid down, booing and a hooing on the phone so uncontrollably that I was incoherent. "Stop it! Stop it right now and say thank you!" Maya chided.
"But - you don't understand," I sobbed. To this day, I can't remember what it was that had me so far gone, which only proves the point Maya was trying to make. "I do understand," she told me. "I want to hear you say it now....Out loud."
'Thank you.'" Tentatively, I repeated it: "Thank you - but what am I saying thank you for?" "You're saying thank you," Maya said, "because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it.
You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say, "thank you!" So I did - and still do. Only now I do it every day.
I kept a gratitude journal, as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests in Simple Abundance, list at least five things that I'm grateful for. My list includes small pleasures: The feel of Kentucky bluegrass under my feet (like damp silk); a walk in the woods with all nine of my dogs and my cocker spaniel Sophie trying to keep up; cooking fried green tomatoes with Stedman and eating them while they're hot; reading a good book and knowing another awaits. My thank-you list also includes things too important to take for granted: an "okay" mammogram, friends who love me, 25 years at the same job (and loving it more than the first day I started), a chance to share my vision for a better life, staying centered, having financial security.
I won't kid you, having money for all the things I want is a blessing. But as I look back over my journals, which I've kept since I was 15 years old, 99 per cent of what brought me real joy had nothing to do with money. (It had a lot to do with food, however.) It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: PERSPECTIVE.
Just knowing you have that daily list to complete allows you to look at your day differently, with an awareness of every sweet gesture and kind thought passed your way. When you learn to say "thank you", you see the world anew. And as Meister Eckhart so eloquently stated: "If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'Thank you God, that would suffice." THANK YOU GOD !!! AMEN - written by Oprah Winfrey
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
June 2: Singer William Guest with Gladys Knight and the Pips is 65. Actor Dennis Haysbert ("24") is 52. Rapper B-Real of Cypress Hill is 36. Comedian Wayne Brady is 34. Actor Deon Richmond (NBC’s “Teachers” and Bud from "The Cosby Show") is 28.
June 3: Singer Deniece Williams is 55.
June 4: Singer El DeBarge is 45. Comedian Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live") is 32.
WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Check out NewsNoir.com (www.newsnoir.com), the Black Television Station of the Internet. News, Entertainment and Information from a Black Perspective.
Submit your favorite Web site to us along with a 15-20 word (or less) description to info@eurweb.com.
BLACK HISTORY
June 2, 1899: Black Americans observed day of fasting called by National Afro-American Council to protest lynching and racial massacres.
June 3, 1904: Charles R. Drew was born on this day.
June 4, 1972: Angela Davis acquitted by white jury in San Jose, Calif., of charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shoot-out. (Source: www.BlackFacts.com)
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