Sunday, April 01, 2007
GRATITUDE
When we can take a few moments to be grateful, there is no space for fear, worry, anxiety, victimhood. Gratitude instantly puts us in a space of heart, a space of calm connectedness and love.
As Melodie Beattie says:
Take a moment to write down ten things you are grateful for today. Do this once in the morning and then read your list over at night. How does it feel to start and end your day with gratitude?
As Melodie Beattie says:
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
And what if we were able to see everything that comes to us as a gift from the Universe? Perhaps the wrapping won't always be as tidy or as pretty as we might like... and it may take time to see the gifts in some occurrences. However, if we can trust that everything that comes to us is perfectly planned for our highest good, then we can, indeed be grateful and celebrate our many blessings.Take a moment to write down ten things you are grateful for today. Do this once in the morning and then read your list over at night. How does it feel to start and end your day with gratitude?
