The Thank You Thread

[in_style]

thanks for so many reasons to smile.

 

thanks for good clients who understand the process.

 

thanks to my bestfriends. their presence just makes me confident.

 

thanks for the time to sleep.

 

thanks for overseas calls. needless to say, thanks to that someone

who doesnt mind burning the lines and spend just to talk to me!

[poohfighter]

thanks for the 2 hours sleep..

 

ok na yung walang tulog..kesa naman walang gising di ba?!

[missmanners]

thank you for not hiring that guy. because if he was hired, i might have been bumped off my timeslot. and i love my timeslot.

 

thank you for pho hoa opening near my office. because now i can satisfy my pho cravings in minutes instead of days.

 

thank you for the rains. because now it's not so hot and i'm not so cranky.

 

thank you for my friends who love me. because without them, i'd probably want to k*ll myself.

 

thank you for the kfc chicken salad. because now i can actually enjoy the south beach diet.

 

thank you for my new puppy, charlie. because now someone actually jumps for joy when i go home.

[HimuraButosay]

thank You for...

 

...the sanity You have given

 

...the Your light & guidance

 

...the food that nourishes me

 

...SME who loves me who I am

 

...the challenges & trials that come my way

[in_style]

sl,

 

hi baby! sorry i wasnt too attentive this morning.

lack of sleep i guess. been staying up late again.

thanks for understanding... as always!

i guess that's why you're MY angel!

will make it up to you... promise!

 

will talk to you later. for now, i will head for bed.

cant hang out long enough to keep you company.

hope your weekend is turning out well.

its a rainy monday morning here. tc.

[fastriser]

thank you for life

[gw@p1t0]

thanks for everything that you had given me......

[wyette]

thank you for last week....

..for giving me courage to face things...

 

...for giving me the confidence to go and pursue a battle..

 

...for showing me the suport of my family..

 

...for giving Succubus another year...

 

...for enlightening my mind in the 2 day battle i went through..

 

...for making me hope to win them..

 

thank you for all these.

[mariejoy]

thank you ...sa mga friends ko kasi lagi sila nandyan thru thick and thin.

thank you... sa big and small blessings everyday.

[katty]

thankyou i had a good day

[in_style]

today we made certain breakthroughs!

 

today we broke barriers!

 

today we affirm that there are wonderful

blessings to those who wait!

 

today we free ourselves of the pain

and the hard times that weigh us down.

 

today we thank the lord, our families,

our love ones, our friends and even our foes

for making us better and stronger!

 

amen.

[wyette]

thank you...

 

.... for giving me hope....

.... for giving me strength..

....for giving my sister enough strength to endure the failure she has to face...

....for my nephews and nieces who are the reasons of my smiles....

...for my friends who lift me up when i am down and will not allow me to fall however hard headed I can be...

....for giving my dad 60 years of life....

...for making me realize that however hard life can be, the ALMIGHTY YOU will always be my anchor in every step of the way...

 

 

thank you

[in_style]

thanks for the productive two days of work.

 

thanks for friends and friendship that means alot.

 

thanks for a good family lunch today.

 

thanks for the light!

 

finally, thanks for SL.

the source of my strength and inspiration.

[TheGeneral]

thank you for this holiday... i really needed this break.

[in_style]

tonite i came from someone's wake.

on my way home i realized that life is indeed short.

... that we dont have control over when it will end.

 

i realized how blessed i am for all the good things

and experiences i've been through. i am thankful

the people who loves me. i am also thankful for the

pain, the bad times and even for the people who

has hurt me. all those has made me what i am now -

stronger and better.

 

 

thank you my stronghold!

 

thank you for making me what i am and who i am now.

 

thank you for blessing me with such loving family

and loved ones who will stick it out through good times & bad.

 

thanks for keeping my path straight and for re-directing

me when my life goes ballistics.

 

thank you for the gift of appreciation.

a little pat of the back, a hug or a kiss, a short message.

 

most of all, thank you for reminding me tonite

what you've been telling me all these years -

the best things in life are free! not money or fame

will make me happy and contented.

its my family, its my loved ones, its being contented

with what i have and who i have.

Edited June 13, 2005 by in_style

[wyette]

...thank you for strength...

...thank you for friends who are standing by me...

...thank you for friends who are standing by me now more than ever...

...thank you for making me realize that caring too much can hurt too....

...thank you for making me realize my worth as a person.........and as a friend....

...thank you for keeping me sane still....

[TheGeneral]

Thank you for answering my prayers... :hypocritesmiley:

 

I am now a proud daddy of a cute and healthy baby girl... :thumbsupsmiley:

[SamanthaJones]

thank you giving me my lil' ivy and my next kid

[in_style]

Thank you for answering my prayers...  :hypocritesmiley:

 

I am now a proud daddy of a cute and healthy baby girl...  :thumbsupsmiley:

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congratulations is in order! :thumbsupsmiley:

may your daughter be a source of joy to you and to your wife!

[in_style]

GOD,

 

today is another special day!

i have soooo much reasons to be thankful for.

everyday is a blessing already

but to have a day when you get to smile from ear to ear

because you know that everything is moving on your direction -

now that's too much! :thumbsupsmiley:

 

thanks for your special blessing.

thanks for my friend!

its a good feeling to find someone whom you can relate so much.

same vibes... same wavelength.... same likes and dislikes.

its all so cool!

 

thanks for a productive day at work.

looking forward to seeing two of our projects in the market.

m just so proud of my team!

 

thanks for the time to take things easy.

i know there is a learning why you're giving me this pace.

i dont want to argue because i also know that i've been through hell before.

 

thanks for the gift of music.

m just so excited of my new collection!

 

most of all, (everyday) i thank you for SL.

having him in my life allows me to balance everything.

it's nice being happy because it's not superficial.

i'm simply happy where i am... who i am with... how things are.

 

with all my heart, i thank you.

 

 

 

-xtn-

[in_style]

GOD,

 

today is another special day!

i have soooo much reasons to be thankful for.

everyday is a blessing already

but to have a day when you get to smile from ear to ear

because you know that everything is moving on your direction -

now that's too much! :thumbsupsmiley:

 

thanks for your special blessing.

thanks for my friend!

its a good feeling to find someone whom you can relate so much.

same vibes... same wavelength.... same likes and dislikes.

its all so cool!

 

thanks for a productive day at work.

looking forward to seeing two of our projects in the market.

m just so proud of my team!

 

thanks for the time to take things easy.

i know there is a learning why you're giving me this pace.

i dont want to argue because i also know that i've been through hell before.

 

thanks for the gift of music.

m just so excited of my new collection!

 

most of all, (everyday) i thank you for SL.

having him in my life allows me to balance everything.

it's nice being happy because it's not superficial.

i'm simply happy where i am... who i am with... how things are.

 

with all my heart, i thank you.

 

 

 

-xtn-

[in_style]

This story cum article talks about how we can reconnect to our

lives and re-learn how to be thankful for anything/everything in our lives.

 

 

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The Transformative Power of Gratitude

Simple practices can reconnect us with the flow of life.

 

By Kim Ridley

 

 

My life was humming along last year when the universe delivered back-to-back wake-up calls. First, I lost my job when the magazine I edited went belly-up. A month later, my father landed in the intensive care unit. It felt as though life were peeling my layers, like a tree being stripped of bark.

 

Not knowing what else to do, I drove down to my parents' house. Their vulnerability terrified me. I visited my father at the hospital every day, trying to hold back tears as I stood awkwardly by his bed and stroked his thick white hair. At home, I cooked, answered the phone, and washed the dishes. One afternoon, I held my mother's hand as she wept. Its warmth and softness, its aliveness, astonished me. And that's when the most unexpected thought welled up from some fresh chink in my heart: I am so blessed to be here right now.

 

Suddenly, I felt lucky to have the time to be with my parents, to witness them, which I wouldn't have been able to do if I hadn't lost my job. Now, I had all the time there was.

 

I felt even more grateful for this gift of time when my father returned home. Grateful for the smallest things: poring over seed catalogues together, watching sitcoms with him, listening to his breathing while he slept in his recliner. Grateful for the cold wind on my face as I cross the supermarket parking lot on an errand for my parents. Grateful for my brother's love and care, for my mother's humanity, for the moon climbing the maple trees outside my old bedroom window.

 

Looking back, I never would have chosen the crises of my father's illness and losing work I loved. But my parents' vulnerability—and my own—frighten me less these days. Gratitude opened the gates of tenderness—right in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

 

Since then, I've started making a conscious effort to practice gratitude in some small way every day. When I do, I feel much more connected with the flow of life, instead of isolated and alone in my own struggles and fears.

 

Gratitude can be a powerfully transformative practice. Psychologists Robert Emmons of U.C. Davis and Michael McCullough of the University of Miami have found that practicing gratitude can actually improve our emotional and physical well-being. Their ongoing Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness has found that people who keep weekly gratitude journals had fewer physical symptoms, exercised more, had a better outlook on life and were more likely to reach their goals. People with neuromuscular disease who practiced daily gratitude "had more high-energy positive moods," felt more connected to others, and felt more positive about life in comparison to a control group.

Practicing gratitude helps people extract the most out of life," Emmons says. "People can also experience an overall shift to a more benevolent view of the world. I think it's kind of a spiritual shift for some people because it makes them more aware of life as a gift."

 

To help strengthen my own "gratitude muscle," I asked Emmons and several inspiring practitioners to share their suggestions. Here are daily practices anyone can try.

 

1. See the giver behind the gift. "We ask people to focus every day on a particular person who provided them with a benefit," Emmons says. That's really what gratitude is. It's not just something you're happy about." It could be anyone from the spouse who made you a perfect cup of coffee this morning to the person who bagged your groceries.

 

2. Ask yourself three questions every day. A powerful way to cultivate gratitude is to focus on what is really happening in our lives, rather than falling into the traps of complaining and drama, says Gregg Krech, author of "Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self Reflection," and co-founder of the ToDo Institute in Monkton, Vermont. The basic practice of Naikan, which translates to "inside-looking," consists of asking oneself three questions every day: "What have I received today? What have I given? What trouble have I caused?" While Naikan doesn't deny the difficult parts of our lives, it puts things into perspective, says Krech, who asks himself these three questions every evening.

 

"When I list everything I received and then everything I gave each day, what I have in the giving column is always so much shorter than what's in the receiving column," he says. "As we become aware that we've received so much more than we've given, not only does that cultivate gratitude, it also cultivates often a sense of wanting to give something back to the world."

 

3. Practice even when you don't feel like it. "One of the mistakes people often make in our culture is thinking you have to feel grateful to practice gratitude," says psychologist Miriam Greenspan, author of Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair. "You can practice anytime—when you feel sorrow, great anxiety over a parent's imminent death, if you have a disabled child. Whatever one can muster at these points as a prayer of gratitude—okay, I'm still breathing, or I have friends who care about me—tips the experience from being immersed unmindfully in one's suffering to moving into the present moment with a more holistic perspective. We see that there is suffering, but there is also this gratitude, and we can hold them together."

 

4. Make thank-you your mantra. Every moment offers an opportunity for thanks, says Nancy Hathaway, senior dharma teacher at the Kwan Um Zen School and a family mindfulness consultant in Blue Hill, Maine. She uses "thank-you" as a mantra to return to the present moment. "On the first day of spring, I was raking the gravel off the grass. It was hard, and I was starting to complain to myself," Hathaway says. "When I caught myself thinking, I switched over to 'thank you.' I remembered I really wanted to rake, and I wanted springtime. Gratitude practice for me is about letting go of thinking and welcoming in the present moment."

 

5. Create a simple family ritual. "In our family, every evening when we have dinner, we say our thank you's," says Greenspan. "It's not a formal prayer of any kind, but just what we're grateful for in the moment, and that's all. It brings us back, it's a touchstone to the miracles of life that we may have been overlooking."

 

6. Bow to life. "I do three bows in the morning," Hathaway says. "The first bow is to my self as part of the universe. The second bow is to my family, children, and friends to acknowledge and appreciate them. The third is bowing to the universal life force and what is. Doing this helps me let go of controlling, and instead open to the flow of life."

[wyette]

Amen ms in_tyle. thank you for sharing that wonderful article.

 

 

 

thank you...

 

...for my friends who come to me for strength....for they are the ones who make me realize that i really am a strong person and that I won't give up with the turmoils that are going through in my life now...

...for technology... cellphones, computers, internet, telephones.... for these things help me connect with friends...

...for my faith in God...that however sinful i can become, He has not been a condemning God to me and to the people I most love...

[bachr32]

I always thank you Lord, even for the smallest things:

thank you dahil kasabay ko sya mag lunch ngayon...

[in_style]

one more day and it's fathers day. i wish to greet my brother

on this special occassion. you've got for two wonderful kids,

your splitting image!

 

thank you too for being the wind beneath my wings, kuya!

you will always be my driving force, my special angel.

 

i pray that life has been good to you for the past four years.

we try to manage here. there are good days and there are bad days.

i guess we will never get used to the idea of you being away.

i still say, i wish things turned out differently.

 

i get my strength from my faith, telling me you are settled there....

and that everyday, you look after us. what else can i ask from God,

but our very own angel in heaven!

 

to you my dearest brother, you will always be my strength.

... the wind beneath my wings.

happy father's day...