It’s easy to feel gratitude when things support your highest values and appear to be going well. If you want to ‘count your blessings’ during an apparent happy time, you can usually come up with a very long list of things to be grateful for. When gratitude really comes in handy, though, is when your life seems to be hitting one roadblock after another, when things appear to be challenging your highest values. When you are coping with an elusive broken heart, or a troubled child, or a marriage ending, or a lost job, it can feel nearly impossible to summon up a feeling of gratitude—not only for the supportive or so-called good things in your life but also for the pain and difficulty that is calling you to a deeper level of strength and understanding. Yet, paradoxically, this very challenge is what leads you to a deeper inspection which ultimately awakens you to the ever present synchronous balance that results in a true feeling of gratitude. It is this heavenly gratitude that brings comfort during these apparently hard times.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:00:00 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015