Daily Practice Space

Grateful living is an orientation to life that is supported through practice. Begin your journey with our library of daily practices including Stop.Look.Go.  Additional offerings include our Word For the Day and Daily Question, eCards, Light a Candle, Private Gratitude Journal, and poetry collection.

Word for the Day

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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

— Chief Crowfoot

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Daily Question

Foundational Practice

Stop.Look.Go.

Br. David Steindl-Rast’s simple and powerful Stop.Look.Go practice serves as a foundation for living gratefully on a daily basis. Through regular practice, Stop.Look.Go will lead you to experience increased presence, a more expansive perspective, and a greater sense of possibility in your daily life.

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Practices

Three Appointments with Joy

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
This practice of noticing, naming, and making time for joy offers a quick way to…
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Discovering Meaning in Every Moment

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This three-step reflective practice will help you find the meaning that already exists in your…
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Leaning into Uncertainty and Mystery

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
This practice includes three simple strategies for remaining open to possibility, wonder, and mystery in…
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Create Belonging: Make an Improbable Friend

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
A daily practice to create belonging by connecting with someone whose perspective differs from your…
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You Are Here: Awakening to the Opportunities of Today

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
A daily practice to empower yourself by awakening to the opportunities of the day ahead…
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Discover Play as a Way of Being

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
This practice invites you to take stock of the qualities that come alive when you…

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Explore Poetry

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Zen Frogscape

by Lang Elliott
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Prayer Flags

by Linda Hannum
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Wood Thrush Dawn Chorus

by Lang Elliott
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Sunset Waves

by Linda Hannum
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Smokey Mountain Waterfall

by The Grateful Living Team
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