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    Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes (Alcoholics Anonymous, Daily Reflections, Christian Devotional, Gratitude, Blessings, Acts of Kindness)
    Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes (Alcoholics Anonymous, Daily Reflections, Christian Devotional, Gratitude, Blessings, Acts of Kindness)
    Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes (Alcoholics Anonymous, Daily Reflections, Christian Devotional, Gratitude, Blessings, Acts of Kindness)
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    Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes (Alcoholics Anonymous, Daily Reflections, Christian Devotional, Gratitude, Blessings, Acts of Kindness)

    By Becca Anderson and Brenda Knight

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    #1 Amazon New Release! ─ Daily reflections. Inspirational prayers for every day of the year

    Relationship prayers: This lovely book, Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessing, Graces and Gratitudes, can be used as a book of graces to share over the evening meal, as a hostess gift or for daily reflection. Sharing gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to create close relationships. By praying together at the daily meal with these gratitudes, you have a happier family and become bonded together by blessings. Add the joy of living in thankfulness by incorporating daily reflections and inspirational prayers into your plan for each day.

    Prayers before meals: In today's frenetic world, the common experience of sharing the evening meal can restore a sense of community and humanity to society. More important, the blessing of the meal fosters in us a sense of gratitude for the gifts we have been given. This collection of 365 blessings-ranging from the words of Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and Abraham Lincoln to Maya Angelou and Oprah will bring joy to the shared experience of breaking bread.

    Daily reflections: Author Becca Anderson grew up with graces, spoken blessings and relationship prayers every day at the family table, noting, "We looked forward to it every day and it got us through everything, good times and bad. I believe wholeheartedly that counting your blessings and prayers of gratitude will bring loved ones together and adds so much joy to life."

    Inspirational prayers: Becca Anderson’s curated collection of the world’s wisdom traditions celebrates the connections between grace and gratitude. The book includes a wide selection of blessings, graces and gratitudes including:

    • devotionals for women
    • relationship prayers
    • prayers for giving thanks
    • devotionals for men
    • thank the Lord prayers
    • devotionals for couples
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMango
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781633535282
    Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes (Alcoholics Anonymous, Daily Reflections, Christian Devotional, Gratitude, Blessings, Acts of Kindness)
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    Becca Anderson

    Becca Anderson comes from a long line of teachers and preachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher side of her family led her to become a woman's studies scholar and to her career writing about awesome women. A multiple-time bestselling author, Becca Anderson is known for many things, including her books Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women, her Your Blessings blog and Every Day Thankful Facebook page, as well as her many appearances on both national and bay area tv and radio shows such as ABC, NBC, and NPR. She credits her spiritual practice and daily prayer with helping her recover from cancer. An avid collector of affirmations, meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle ''that meets monthly at homes, churches and bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson shares prayers and affirmations, inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com

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      Every Day Thankful - Becca Anderson

      Copyright © 2017 Becca Anderson

      Published by Mango Media Inc.

      Design: Laura Mejía

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      Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes

      ISBN: 978-1-63353-527-5

      Printed in the United States of America

      Deepest love and appreciation to the elders in my family who survived the Great Depression and shared stories of living through hard times with humility and a sense of gratitude. I owe you so much for the wisdom.

      Wake at dawn with a winged

      Heart and give thanks for

      Another day of loving.

      —Khalil Gibran

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter One

      January - Time for Renewal

      Chapter Two

      February - Matters of the Heart

      Chapter Three

      March - The Season of Change

      Chapter Four

      April - Hope Springs Eternal

      Chapter Five

      May - The Merriest Month

      Chapter Six

      June - Life is in Full Bloom

      Chapter Seven

      July - Summer Is Love

      Chapter Eight

      August – Life is Good!

      Chapter Nine

      September – Harvest Your Blessings

      Chapter Ten

      October – Gratitude and Giving Go Hand in Hand

      Chapter Eleven

      November – Count Your Blessings

      Chapter Twelve

      December – Time for Celebration and Appreciation!

      After Words

      Epilogue

      About The Author

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      Foreword

      The Importance of Living Life as a Thank You

      by Nina Lesowitz

      Are you tired of walking around with a hole in your heart? Do you need more inspiration? Studies show—and experts counsel—that gratitude is a key component of our own happiness. People who are grateful about events and experiences from the past, who celebrate the triumphs instead of focusing on the losses or disappointments, tend to be more satisfied in the present. In her popular book The Secret, Rhonda Byrne writes, With all that I have read and all that I have experienced in my own life using The Secret, the power of gratitude stands above everything else. If you do only one thing with the knowledge of this book, use gratitude until it becomes your way of life.

      The recent buzz surrounding the power of gratitude is overwhelmingly positive. Jeffery Zaslow, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, recently wrote there may be a positive by-product of the troubled economic times that followed the 2008 stock market dive: a decrease in the urge to complain. People who still have jobs are finding reasons to be appreciative. It feels unseemly to complain about not getting a raise when your neighbor is unemployed, he wrote. Homeowners are unhappy that home values have fallen, but it’s a relief to avoid foreclosure.

      Indeed, in these times of economic woe, gratitude is popping up everywhere. Turn on the TV. We listened as a career coach on The Today Show advised job seekers to put the words thank you in their job search tool kits, declaring that the key to distinguishing oneself from the masses is to send a thank you note. Click on to Facebook and check out the gratitude groups, where hundreds of people log on each day to give thanks for everything from the sun rising that morning to their neighborhood dog parks. Cathy, of Greenville, South Carolina, wrote, I am grateful for a bark park to take my dog-children to, so I picked up extra poop and trash this morning. Mary, from Philadelphia wrote, I am so grateful for the beautiful snow outside.

      Gratitude floats our boats and moves us to do all kinds of things inspired by joy. Gratitude can help us transform our fears into courage, our anger into forgiveness, our isolation into belonging, and another’s pain into healing. Saying "Thank you every day will create feelings of love, compassion, and hope.

      But the fact is, the art of living—for that is what we speak about when we speak of gratitude—isn’t something that comes naturally to most people. Most of us need to work intentionally to increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of positive, grateful feelings—a daunting challenge indeed. But fear not, this workbook is here to help! Inside we have provided you with mindful meditations, hands-on exercises, profound practices, inspiring quotations, space for writing, thought-provoking questions, and even positive power tools that will help you build a more grateful life. Becca Anderson’s book is one I will turn to on a daily basis. To master the art of being a gratitude practitioner, you have to take time for gratitude every day; that works for me and it will work for you. You’ll be glad and oh-so-thankful you did.

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      Introduction

      Dear Reader,

      Gratitude is one

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