GUTBUCKET GRATITUDE

See, My children, that even in distress, the first step is Praise. Before you cry in your distress, bless the Lord, even when troubles seem to overwhelm you. -- "God Calling," October 11

Praise...my comfort...my "amazing grace" if you will...praise, i.e., thank you.

It seems we begin our rocky road to belief wanting magic. We go to God looking out there...seeking something magical to take away that which we are reasonably fearing in the moment or dreading for the future...and we say "Please." 

Thus begins our journey of learning the art of detachment...of loose it and let it go, of go beyond reason to love. Of the necessity for spiritual insight versus personal outlook.

To go beyond reason (our reasoning mind) to love (nonresistance) is to go beyond please to thank you...from believing we have a need that our Father knows naught of, to acknowledging that we have no need that our Father has not already met. We can comfortably feel grateful.

Once we experience the power of thank you, our entire belief system upgrades. Our rational vision sees lack, our grateful eye sees plenty...or a sliver of gold at any rate. Then slowly through the grace of gratitude, our circumstances change, and we are living in the peace of plenty, a.k.a., enough. 

If the only prayer you ever say is 'Thank You,' that will suffice.  -- Meister Eckart  

Thank you.

Sidebar: Lest anyone thinks this is all "pie in the sky"...or I read it somewhere so I'm guessing it's true...No. This is entirely from my own experience. My actual IRS involvement is now my spiritual experience for which I am gutbucket grateful...top that, reasoning mind!