“The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.”
Question for Meditation: How can you make gratitude a discipline?
Month: March 2020
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
Question for Meditation: What opportunities do you need to create?
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
Question for Meditation: What was your last failure? How did you keep going?
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end. But rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”
Question for Meditation: Has your life begun?
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
Question for Meditation: What direction do you want to move in?
“God, let us win the struggle for dignity and discipline, defeating the urge for retaliatory violence, choosing that grace which redeems.”
Question for Meditation: What is your prayer for dignity and discipline?
“Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win. Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.”
Question for Meditation: What are your disciplines for?
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore, the brothers should have specified periods for manual labor as well as for prayerful reading.”
Question for Meditation: How do you order your life? How do you stick to that order?
“When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.”
Question for Meditation: What is God commanding you to do, and how will you carry that out?
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to do to accomplish your goals?
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