Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned.

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.