In the preface to the beautiful and inspiring work, Simple Gratitudes, Hannah Greenberg begins, "It's neither riches nor social status that makes our tenacious hanging on to life worthwhile. Rather, it's our integration of challenging "sensibilities," of deep feelings which might be sweet, but which are necessarily sharply disconcerting, that stretches us and that enables us to grasp the best qualities of this world. "Gratitude," not "entitlement," remains the proven route, within our mortal existence, to serving The Almighty and to finding joy in our service.

"What's more, it both behooves us to see the entirety of our commonplace experiences as spiritual, and to elevate all of our spiritual happenstances. So much work has yet to be completed in our process of releasing personal and social expectations and in replacing those anticipatory notions with simple faith. Simple Gratitudes invites us to live by working for The Boss." With simple but clear-minded and visually rich descriptions, the author elevates normal everyday happenings to a spiritual plane that lies deep in everyone's heart in a way that transcends religious creed, race, and time itself. No matter where you are or your pattern of belief, you will find her words resonate with gifts of a universal truth.