Saturday Nov 05, 2011
Gratitude: A State of Grace
Feeling Gratitude
Gratitude is a state of grace.
Whenever I feel gratitude, which is many times a day, it’s a moment for prayer, for thanksgiving. The feeling is the prayer, no need for words.
Here’s a beautiful and apt quote from Melodie Beattie:
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity … It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Eden,
This is a beautiful and useful post. I like looking at Gratitude as a prayer of thanksgiving.
And, in the Melodie Beattie quote, to see gratitude as a key that unlocks the doors (of perception).
Thanks for this prayer of gratitude, Eden.
Janet Riehl
Thank you Janet.
Gratitude: no need for years of devotion and ceremony to some belief system.
Gratitude is direct, powerful, and mindful—which adds up to a state of awareness from which one can experience a life of fulfillment.
