{"id":810,"date":"2010-08-30T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2010-08-30T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:19:37","slug":"o-happy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"O Happy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago I was invited to a friend’s house for a late afternoon chat about all things marvelous and magnificent. When I arrived at his place the sun was shining, the sky was blue, the birds were probably singing and upon seeing me he said, “Wonderful good afternoon!”<\/p>\n

This greeting reminded me of a fellow on the ashram<\/a> who used to say, “Wonderful good morning,” when greeting people at the start of the day. It always made me smile.<\/p>\n

As greetings go, nothing can beat Charlotte<\/a>‘s first hello to Wilbur the Pig. “Salutations!” she says to him. What a great way to teach a kid a big word. I’ve never forgotten it.<\/p>\n

Then there is the\u00a0Good Morning Good Morning <\/em>song by The Beatles that repeats the line three or four times in a row with ramped-up energy and verve. Love that, too. It never fails to get the juices flowing.<\/p>\n

Why all this focus on greetings and salutations this morning? Because I’m feeling a lot of gratitude and humility today. A heart full of gladness and willingness to be of service. I have a life beyond my wildest dreams and I’m sharin’ the Love, people.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping that “after a while you start to smile…”<\/p>\n

Inspiring Message of the Day: Salutations! Wonderful good morning! Good morning good morning good morning good morning ah! May those of us who are feeling joyful today inspire the ones who are struggling with a smile and an ebullient greeting.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dearest Readers, A couple of days ago I was invited to a friend’s house for a late afternoon chat about all things marvelous and magnificent. When I arrived at his place the sun was shining, the sky was blue, the birds were probably singing and upon seeing me he said, “Wonderful good afternoon!” This greeting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[615,614,616,816,325,817,617],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beatles","tag-charlottes-web","tag-good-morning-good-morning","tag-inspiration","tag-inspiring-message-of-the-day","tag-motivation","tag-share-the-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}