Friendship AWARD received

I received this award from my friend THOM The following rules came with this prize:

These blogs are exceedingly charming.

These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.

They are not interested in self-aggrandizement.

Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers.

Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly written text into the body of their award.

So now comes the hardest part of this whole thing because I'm very grateful to everyone who reads my blog but I can only choose 8 so here goes:

1. Heaven is in Belgium
2. A Girl in Asia
3. Dr. John
4. Fifi's Flowers
5. Blogtrotter
6. Gattina
7. The Oasis of my soul
8. Quintessentially Quilly

Congratulations to all and keep on trucking...oops...blogging

The greatest thief of human happiness and abundance is ungratefulness. Any lack in our lives - whether in money, health, or relationships - is simply the evidence of a lack of gratitude. If you focus on lack you are not being grateful, and that will bring more lack into your life.

Yet the simple state of radiating gratitude summons everything to you. No matter who you are or where you are, you can change your life with gratitude, but you must feel it with your whole heart and radiate it from every cell.

Gratitude is not a mental exercise, and in fact, if you simply use your mind for gratitude it will have little or no power. True gratitude comes from your heart! You must think gratitude through your heart, speak gratitude through your heart, and feel it intensely in your heart

Then practice gratitude relentlessly. As you practice gratitude you will attract more thoughts and feelings of gratitude. In a short time your entire being will be saturated with it, and you will experience a happiness that is beyond what you can imagine.

This is what is ahead for you when you choose gratitude as your way of life. And if you can really live in this highest state of gratitude, you will never have to ask for anything. Everything you want will be given to you before you even ask, because gratitude is the magnetic substance that opens every single door in the Universe.