{"id":4747,"date":"2014-10-05T17:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T17:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2014-10-05T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T17:44:21","slug":"happy-day-filled-with-gratitude-light-dancing-and-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2014\/10\/happy-day-filled-with-gratitude-light-dancing-and-blessings.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Day Filled With Gratitude, Light, Dancing and Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, God. \u00a0Thank you, Life. \u00a0Thank you, Everyone. \u00a0You are the light of the world.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what is going on, no matter what is coming up in your world, there is love.<\/p>\n<p>Give thanks. Give love. Let it be.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p><em>I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And wait without love. For love would be love,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>of the wrong thing.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yet there is faith.<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nBut the faith and the hope and the love, are all in the waiting.<br \/>\nAnd the darkness shall be the light<br \/>\nand the stillness the dancing.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>~ T.S. Elliot<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Give thanks. Give love. Let it be.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Grateful, so grateful<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Thankful, so grateful<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Grateful, so grateful<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Thankful, so thankful<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">It is wonderful to have you as part of the Flight of the Soul BeliefNet.com Community.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">Love, Mel<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/files\/2014\/10\/Picture-011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4748\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2014\/10\/Picture-011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Picture 011\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, God. \u00a0Thank you, Life. \u00a0Thank you, Everyone. \u00a0You are the light of the world. No matter what is going on, no matter what is coming up in your world, there is love. Give thanks. Give love. Let it be. Amen. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, for hope&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,5,44],"tags":[325,14,41,323,48,33,38,61],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-systems-love","category-getting-bare","category-i-am","tag-all-systems-love","tag-faith","tag-flight-of-the-soul","tag-inspiration","tag-intuition","tag-joy","tag-love-you-for-life","tag-miracles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Day Filled With Gratitude, Light, Dancing and Blessings  - Flight of the Soul<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2014\/10\/happy-day-filled-with-gratitude-light-dancing-and-blessings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Day Filled With Gratitude, Light, Dancing and Blessings  - Flight of the Soul\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thank you, God. \u00a0Thank you, Life. \u00a0Thank you, Everyone. \u00a0You are the light of the world. 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