AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

We can deny it till our face falls off, but superiority is the siren song of ego...and resentment is my ego Lucy's throne...it proves her superiority, plain and simple. Who cares if it only proves it to Lucy? Lucy is all there is to Lucy.

As Fr. Richard Rohr so aptly wrote ("Daily Meditation," June 1, 2016), And only hour-by-hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

Here's an oldie but a goldie: Develop an attitude of gratitude. Because it's an oldie, too many of us hear that and think, oh yeah, blahblahblah. But it is a fact that gratitude is a spiritual principle...gratitude standing alone is a spiritual principle. According to me.

It has been written that spiritual principles can solve all my problems. You got a problem with that? Get grateful! Your problem will disappear, guaranteed.

Take all your fanciful resentments (you think you've only got the one? Think again, and whoa! There are 3, 4, 5 oh my!)...but I digress. Take your resentments, one by one, and say, out loud and hopefully, "Thank you."

Keep doing that until you are resentment free...takes a while but you'll feel better in the doing than you feel sitting in your resentments. In a world of no guarantees, there's another guarantee.

Thank you.