This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Gratitude. Gratitude is the outward manifestation of feelings of thankfulness and appreciation. Katherine Scherer & Eileen Bodoh are the Official Guides to Gratitude. Gratitude Works: Open Your Heart to Love, by Katherine Scherer & Eileen Bodoh, is a valuable resource for people interested in Thankfulness and it is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Gratitude Works is more than a pretty book to set on the shelf - it's a book to be used. This collection of three hundred and sixty-five short stanzas explores what we have to be grateful for in our lives. Each day focuses on one main thought, and the four lines that follow expand on that thought. The book can be read from beginning to end or opened at any page and used as a daily guide. It takes you through the seasons of the years month by month and inspires you to think of the things in your own life that you are grateful for.
Gratitude Works helps us stay in the present moment by being grateful for what we have now rather than dwelling on the past or dreaming into the future. It helps us learn to stop taking so much for granted. It reminds us to give thanks before our prayers are answered knowing that the blessings will come. When we realize how much there is to be thankful for and recognize the ways we are already blessed, we feel closer to God. When we feel gratitude for each moment, we enrich our souls.
Together Katherine and Eileen have participated in "The Twilight Brigade/Compassion in Action" training, Toastmasters, and numerous workshops. Following their mission to touch lives with the spirit of gratitude, their current projects include The I AM Foundation's MILLION BOOKS FOR KIDS CAMPAIGN, to help build self-esteem and raise literacy in children around the world, and their THREE FOR THIRTY CAMPAIGN, to donate books to women prisoners.
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