Sunday Story...Grateful

One of the most powerful practices you can perform is gratitude. If you are reading this, you have much to be grateful for. Too often, we try to make gratitude about the big things, the momentous occurrences. But the practice of gratitude really requires us to find it in the simplest, smallest moments. Let's think about that. I have gratitude for:

The breath that I take

My body's ability to absorb oxygen and send it out to all the places it needs to go

Being able to get up in the morning and move

All my relationships and all of the people that are around me and in my life

The world around me

The food that I eat

The scenery that I get to see

You won’t have to look very far or very hard to find things to be grateful for. When you do this, all the other things that may bother you will slip away, and you will be left with warmth in your heart for all the blessings you experience in every moment. Gratitude is about the small things as well as the big ones.

Life is full of moments of gratitude if we take the time to experience them. Gratitude is probably the single most important shift you can make that will improve your life. Viktor Frankl said, "The only freedom that man really has is his freedom to choose his attitude" - not just at Thanksgiving or Christmas, but every day, every moment. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude.

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John Mariotti

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