{"id":51168,"date":"2025-06-09T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=51168"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:52:58","slug":"motivational-monday-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=51168","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

June 9th<\/sup> 2025: Gratitude<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe struggle ends when gratitude begins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neale Donald Walsch – Author<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Some Historical Expressions of Gratitude<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A grandmother silently gives her last piece of black bread to her grandson, kneeling to thank the soil, even though it has betrayed her this year. She whispers a prayer of gratitude\u2014not for the bread, but for the child\u2019s breath.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A Textile Worker in Lancashire, 1842<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A girl who just got her job back after a mill shut down due to protests sits beside her mother, patching an old shawl. Her hands ache, but she hums\u2014grateful for work, shelter, and the hope she sees in the union meetings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Slave\u2019s Hidden Thanks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the American South, enslaved people sometimes gathered in secret prayer meetings to give thanks\u2014not for their circumstances, but for small mercies: a newborn’s survival, a meal shared, a kind word. These moments were acts of spiritual resistance and deep communal gratitude, even amid brutality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Refugee\u2019s New Start<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellis Island, 1907: a Ukrainian mother holding her child\u2019s hand as they pass the health inspector. They don\u2019t speak the language, they have no money, but she bows her head in thanks for a chance at something better.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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June 9th 2025: Gratitude \u201cThe struggle ends when gratitude begins.\u201d Neale Donald Walsch – Author Some Historical Expressions of Gratitude A grandmother silently gives her last piece of black bread to her grandson, kneeling to thank the soil, even though it has betrayed her this year. She whispers a prayer of gratitude\u2014not for the bread, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[155,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elder-karyna","category-motivational-monday"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51189,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51168\/revisions\/51189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}