Intention: Gratitude

Latin gratus grateful, thanks, appreciation, thankfulness

What are you grateful for?

Are you only grateful when good things happen?

Are you grateful for others blessings?

Are you grateful for the opportunities you have in your life that contribute to the abundance you have? Being able to pay bills, drive your vehicle..and all the countless little items that add up to the life you call yours.

In my experience, GRATITUDE is powerful cornerstone in which to begin a journey to finding peace in ones life.

There is no penitence to pay with gratitude, but there is only one requirement to fully receive it's intent. One simply cannot partake of gratitude in the future if one cannot be grateful now. It's the kind of lesson that is difficult sometimes as we toil to improve our life situations, finances, health or whatever it may be. Some tend to look at the current status of their lives, and dissatisfaction skews the ability to see what can be appreciated with the thinking that says "I will be happy when.."
Once I had a good handle on my own sense of dissatisfaction, my gratitude flowed forthwith, as did abundance.

I also began recognizing abundance is not simply related to material abundance. It is imagination, creativity, love, interaction and learning, the opportunity to expand perceptual horizons, and variety!

I have learned also that appreciating what others provide as abundance to us and in turn acknowledging that in order to give, one has to receive, and vice versa. We do not get to keep the good stuff, and not share what we get in return!

I had faced a situation, some time ago, where my life hung in the balance of another persons decision. I presented my case, representing the facts in accepted sincerity that I may have to live my life in such a way that consequences would be so dire that it would place my family in hardship, but I had accepted that responsibility and possibility, and gratefully learned the lesson. This surrendering of control and sheer appreciation of the lesson bestowed upon me allowed me to move through this challenging time with peace in my being.

And so the cycle of gratitude, abundance and surrender takes place.

Voltaire:Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

yours,

in immutable LOVE.