There is so much in my life to be grateful for...so many undeserved blessings, unearned gifts...and I am grateful, unbelievably grateful. I say "unbelievably" because I know from whence I came.
There was a time if I'd been gifted with the Hope diamond, I would've complained because it was blue...in my mind I can hear me now, "Well, it doesn't even look like a diamond...everybody'll think it's just a great big sapphire." Think about that!...who complains that they've been gifted with a great big sapphire?
Without gratitude, that's where most of us live most of the time today...nit-picking our gifts. Second-guessing God.
I know, for me, gratitude is the answer...no matter the question, the problem, the oh rats, and the why me...gratitude is the answer.
I hold a couple thoughts in ready reserve today that keep me anchored to that answer: 1) Don't be as nasty as you want to be (my personal golden rule); and 2) Whatever I've got, whatever comes to me...whatever it looks like to my ego's eye...call it the good and get grateful.
Worst case scenario is I get a crock of crap so ugly even God would hold his nose. What can we do with that but laugh? And laughter is just gratitude on the hoof.
Thank you.
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