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"Gratitude is not just a good virtue, but the mother of all virtues."
One of the common aspects of spiritual practices is gratitude.
So...
What are you grateful for (using a word for each letter of the alphabet, A-Z)?
I'll start:
Apple trees
Beach
Christmas
Dancing
Early mornings
Family
Guitar
Horses
Intimacy
Jet Skis
Kids
Laughing
Music
Newborns
Olympics
Piano
Quilts
Romance
Stars
Travelling
Umbrellas
Vacation
Waterfall
X-ray technology
Youth
Zippidydoodah (& other silly songs )
Airliners
Books
Cameras
Decent weather
Education
Facts
Good Health
Humour
Internet
Jerry (my best pal)
Kimonos..and other Kolourful Kultural Klobber.
Lasagna
Music
Noodles
Outstanding Intellects
Pretty Girls
Questions
Reasoning
Science
Tolerance
Underground Trains
Vacuum -cleaners
Water
Xotica
Yeast
Zone of Goldilocks
Allaah(swt)
Blessings
Charity
Du'as
Everything
Fatiha
Giving
Home
Isa(as)
Jummat
Kinship
Love
Muhammad(saws)
Neighbors
Order of the universe
Parents
Qur'an
Ramadan
Sunnah
Takbir
Ummah
Voices of joy
Water
Xylene as an additive for aviation fuel
Zero for making modern mathematics possible.
Art
Beaches
Children
Dog (mine specifically)
Empathy
Family and Friends
G. Britain
Husband. Honesty
Intimacy
Joy
Knowledge
Love
Mathematics
Nice quiet time to myself (tough one )
Oranges? (another toughie)
Physics
Questioning
Reason
Science
Tea and Toast
Understanding
Vistas
Wonder
(Couldn't think of anything for X,Y or Z)
Aerodynamics
Birds
Citi-data.com
Dentists
Evenings
Flora
Gatherings
Hills
Internet
Jazz
Kindness
Latitude and longitude (both are of equal importance)
Mail
Now
Order
People
Queen ants (because they breed ants, and ants are an important part of a many ecosystems on Earth's surface).
Restrooms
Society
Trust
Universe
Variables
Wonder
Xenon
Yellow
Zoology
Alphabet (without which we could not do this fun little gratitude exercise)
Bubbles
Cotton (the touch, the feel, the fabric of our lives ... summer would stink without it)
Darrel Tank and his drawing lessons
Electricity & Eyeglasses
Family, of course
Gravity
Hugs
Internet
JRR Tokien (& CS Lewis, because they go together in my mind)
Kryptonite (what would Superman be without it?)
Laughter & Lederhosen (because they make me laugh)
Minions
Noises of all kinds that I can still hear
Order & disOrder (Variety is the spice of life)
Patterns
Questions
Rainy days
Sunny days
Toddler hugs & Teenager humor
Unusual experiences
Vanilla
Watermelon & Wiffleball
X-tended periods of time to focus
Yodeling
Zoodles (so long, evil pasta) & Zentangles
My favorite Meeting has a period of song, then a period for people to tell about things they are grateful for and then a final period of waiting worship. It's a good mix.
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