Gratitude is not about being thankful for a physical present; it is about being aware that someone was thinking of you. It is about being aware of someones presence in your life, it is the confirmation that you matter in someone else's world. Many people talk about how nobody is there for them and they have no support:but first lets point out that many people don't even know how to support themselves let alone support another person. Second, what about all the people who do support you...are you not grateful for them or is there support not enough? I have learned through out the years that with time comes wisdom and with lessons come pain and that pain sharpens that wisdom. The biggest lesson I have learned is the importance of being grateful for what I have and not what I lack. Of course I am happy for all that I have and I don't want to lose it. I don't believe I work hard to lose what I have worked hard to build but unfortunately life can be full ups and downs but it is all about how you handle those ups and downs. Learn to be just as grateful for the downs as you are for the ups. Being grateful will help you become great.
Every year Thanksgiving is the day where we are supposed to be the most grateful. But this year has been full of ups and downs and smiles and frowns and sometimes I honestly have not been that grateful. I have not been that thankful...because I feel or I felt like life is mine and everything in it belongs to me. But life is a gift that I have been given and I must cherish it and just be thankful for life...we spend so much time complaining about what we lack and what we miss that we constantly continue to lack and miss out on more.
Think about all the time you spend talking about what you don't like, following people who you don't like, just giving all your energy to what you dislike instead of giving your energy to what you love and what you desire. I am learning that life is a not a problem to be solved but a reality to be lived.
But in YOUR reality you have to be grateful and thankful for all of the things that you have and all things that God has taken away from you. Gratitude and thankfulness don't just matter when everything in your life is going right....you really need gratitude and thankfulness when everything seems to be going wrong and you want to run away. I am thankful this year for everything God has taken away from me. Now, at first I was mad as hell. But every test teaches you a lesson and I know it doesn't seem like a school house lesson because in school the lesson usually comes before the test... think about it this way...what you thought was the test...was just a lesson preparing you for the real test. Be grateful for all those tears, be grateful because it could've been worst. Be grateful that what you thought was the end was only the beginning. I am grateful that every time that I think the doors are closing shut on me, new doors open.
I am grateful. I am thankful. I am appreciative. I accept the test because I know all of this is just practice preparing me for the REAL TEST. Be grateful for what you have, be grateful for what you have lost. I am thankful that God took everything that he took from me EVEN though I don't understand why. Be grateful and thankful with me.
Happy Grateful Everyday Day!
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