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. ~Melodie Beattie
Excellent quote. I’m living gratitude and it’s brought me peace that I never had before. I look at everything in my life and never stop being amazed at every little thing. The big turning point was realizing that all along, I didn’t want to be in my body. That was keeping me from being grounded in what is. I was always looking into the future and living a constant lack of satisfaction.
Two affirmations that helped, among many others are: “I live in a safe and loving universe.” “There is enough of everything for everyone.”
No matter what happens of a negative nature, say, what the other side is doing to cause chaos, I look for the parallel that’s always there. Whatever you call God is always there, working, creating what I see as the real reality. It’s up to us to tap into it and stop making the negative things real by thinking of them as inevitable. Everything we see, including us, is God. That’s where the gratitude comes in. It’s all right there, we’re tripping over it. But still unbelievably, we can miss it without mindfulness.