Prayer and Daily Expression of Gratitude

[Crafty_Dog]

Grateful for a walk on the beach with my son, a wonderful Valentine's Day dinner with my family prepared by my wife, and grateful that my wife married me 

[jcordova]

Grateful to have a wonderful wife and we had a wonderful V Day.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for support from a variety of different directions and arenas.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for a nice work week that was extremely positive.

[Crafty_Dog]

Praying for insight into a pattern , , ,

[Guide Dog]

Felt terrible yesterday. Took today off from work and felt terrible for most of the day. I have a minor headache at this point, but I think I need to down some more water. Grateful to be feeling better.

[The Tao]

I'm grateful that my life is what it is.

[Crafty_Dog]

Grateful finally to have written a difficult letter today.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for a mentor to have taken the time this evening to communicate in an honest and open manner.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to have a great training space coming together.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for a fine day of training amongst nice people.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to have the martial arts in my life.

[Guide Dog]

My wife is sick, so I am staying home to see that she gets some rest and gets better. Grateful to have seen my son off to school a few minutes ago.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for the hope of some stillness this weekend.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for a good first week of the next phase in the continuing adventure.

[Crafty_Dog]

My wife has set our TV to record the 1950s show "I love Lucy".  We watched two episodes last night with our children.  I am grateful for their laughter and for the family values of the show.

[The Tao]

Grateful to be back to the states for a minute and grateful for a good talk with the Mexican Federal Police yesterday morning as well as a productive trip in Mexico.

[jcordova]

Grateful to have waken to a beautiful day and to be alive

[Guide Dog]

Grateful my wife is so good with our children.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for confusion having become clarity on some work issues.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to have received the electronic and second-to-final-draft version of one of the most important documents of my life today.

[Crafty_Dog]

Grateful for the centering words of a friend.

[The Tao]

Grateful for the persistence I was raised with. The only easy day was yesterday... This is as it should be.

[The Tao]

Grateful to be setting up a night club in Mexico. That ought to bring some interesting people around.

[The Tao]

Is grateful that some of my employees seek their own enlightenment, not what I think, but seek their own truth. I love it when that happens.
I steer them to Miyomoto Mushashi's "Way of Walking Alone," and let them determine for themselves their own course of action. It is nice to see the "lights come on."

[DougMacG]

Zen G, you inspire me to post wisdom I took from my tenant's bathroom wall yesterday:

In a world where you can be ANYTHING ..............  be yourself.

[The Tao]

Thanks Doug.

[Guide Dog]

I am defending my doctoral dissertation two weeks from tomorrow. I am grateful to have received the spiral bound copy for the defense in the mail today from my editor. I am also grateful for a day of excellent training amongst good friends.

[The Tao]

Prayers for those in Japan and Hawaii.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for a fun dinner with friends. Prayers for those lost and injured in Japan.

[Crafty_Dog]

Prayers for the people of Japan.

[jcordova]

Grateful to have had a wonderful party for my sister last night and prayers for the people in Japan.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for four days of wonderful training that went by in a flash.

[The Tao]

Hoping things go well this weekend in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

[Stickgrappler]

Prayers for the people of Japan.

Ditto.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to have a positive outlook on a current challenge.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful for today, a prep day for tomorrow: a very important day in regards to my work.

[Crafty_Dog]

We believe in you GD 

[Guide Dog]

Thank you, Guro.

The high school at which I teach is up for California Distinguished School recognition. Tomorrow is our validation visitation.

My dissertation defense is next Friday, which is..."surreal" is the only word that fits right now.

[The Tao]

Praying for a safe week in Mexico.
Hoping for a response in the affirmative in regard to a letter that I sent yesterday to Somalia.
Grateful for the Martial Arts, The Dog Brothers, and Sensei Gene and Sensei Gokor.
My life is fantastic in every way. I got that from you.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful that the stressful part of my work day is over.

[The Tao]

Just grateful. Everything is a matter of perspective.
Goals, if one is working towards them diligently, are only a matter of time and inevitability.
I have excellent teachers and brothers.
My life could not be any better.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to be in a better frame of mind than I was an hour ago.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to actually have students.

[Crafty_Dog]

Grateful to have two different missions take important steps forward.

[Guide Dog]

Grateful to have a supportive wife who let me take class this morning and then teach for 3 hours, all while watching our two (crazy) children.

[jcordova]

Grateful to have celebrated my wifes birthday in company of her friends and family.  Also grateful that God had granted her another year of life with good health and a family that loves her (Myself and two daughters).

[Kaju Dog]

Gratful to be working along side my teacher and like minded Brothers again. 

Gratful for no serious injuries and an entertaining crowd at the club.  I quit drinking a bit over a week ago and seeing a lot of drunks definately encourages me to leave the booze alone. 

If any of my Brotheren end up in Fresno for whatever reason, visit Club Rome and say hello...  I got your back.

TAC 

[The Tao]

Grateful for the straight up jungles of Southern Mexico. Grateful for the Martial Arts and all of the Dog Brothers.

[Crafty_Dog]

Where in southern Mexico?  Back in the spring of 1978 I spend three days in the prison of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas due to a fight between four locals and a friend and me; we were defending the two girls under our protection from being dragged off and when we ran to the police station the only policeman on duty ran away when the four of them arrived.  Funny story in retrospect, but to this day I remain grateful that it ended well.