There are so many things in this world we should be grateful for, yet so many take for granted and then complain how bad they have it, I think continuously about the children in Gaza being blown apart & all the children in Africa that are perishing daily.
A good friend showed me how to keep a gratitude book and list 5 things on a daily basis and to this day I still do it and never run out of things to be grateful for, as uncanny as it is and what prompted me to write this post was on arriving home I found an article on just this subject. Please allow me to share it with you & as the author also states at the end feel free to share this.
Thankfulness
This morning I read a thought-provoking article about being thankful for our health. The author encouraged readers to look for the positive aspects of their life rather than the negative.
One point was the struggle many of us have with our hair. This may be more of a female problem than male, but I knew exactly what she meant. I have done everything possible to avoid the straight, fine hair I was given including perms, ratting, curlers, dye-jobs (for extra body), and weird hairstyles.
The writer’s point was - we should be thankful we have hair. There are many people who have lost their hair due to circumstances such as chemo or heredity.
Thankfulness should not only occur at Thanksgiving time. No matter what is going on in our life, and many people right now are struggling to survive in these difficult economic times, there is at least one thing we can be thankful for each day.
Years ago I read about keeping a daily gratitude journal. The directions were to list three to five entries in a notebook or journal each night, those things we were grateful for that day. I extended my list to ten items and rarely could not come up with that number. I kept the gratitude journal for years, but in the last year or so, it has dropped off the evening to-do list.
This year, as of today, I am going to resurrect the gratitude journal. The more difficult the times we are in, the more we need to look at the blessings in our life. No matter how dire the situation we face, we can usually come up with at least one or two reasons to feel blessed that day.
I encourage you to start a gratitude journal for 2009. Let it carry you through the next year in spite of any trials and troubles you may face. By the end of next year, you will see how that journal helped you through each day.
The article was written by Lynda Murray. It is an excellent article and I encourage you to start your own gratitude list and add to it regularly, it makes a massive difference to my life these days and how I count my blessings instead of focusing on what I don't have.
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Allen Sentance
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1 comment:
Wholeheartedly agreed, Fisherman. I have tried to instill this in the young people in my life as well as my elders, some of whom chronically complain because they've just done it all their lives. Slowly they are realizing how much gratitude can turn thing around for them. We really can change the world, one person at a time. Great post, my friend. Prosperous blessings, VivBounty
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