Thursday 14 March 2013

Gratitude

Wednesday was a bad day.  I was tired and cranky.  Very tired.  And very cranky, to be honest.  I had to find a way through my bad humour because it was just making everything worse.

Enter gratitude.  As James and I drove to meet friends, I told him we were going to think of ten things for which we were grateful.  We got to ten pretty easily.  So then we were grateful for twenty things.  We did that too.  We even had a few spare!  There were almost thirty things to be grateful for, right off the bat.

It's very easy to get bogged down in the mud of life.  We can feel like caterpillars, rather than the butterflies we truly are.  Gratitude helps us to fly above the mud.  The mud is still there, but its not so up close and personal!

Gratitude is such a powerful blessing, for not only to we feel good being grateful, but so too does the recipient.  Too frequently in life we fail to tell people that they have helped, that they made a difference to us, that we appreciate them, that we really appreciate them. But think how it feels to be told that we matter, that someone appreciates us - it's a wonderfully unexpected feeling, like bubbles of joy welling up inside.

Why not play with gratitude today and watch the magic unfold?

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