This sweet story exemplifies how a simple, consistent gratitude practice can teach our kids to “look for the light even in dark circumstances.”
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As we embark fully into the Christmas season, it’s the perfect time to demonstrate care and kindness toward others. Let’s celebrate Christmas through generosity.
For some of us the practice of writing down what we are grateful for feels more like a chore than a blessing. Let me ease that anxiety for you. What’s important is to let yourself have a moment to mentally show thanks.
Some trials I never have and never will be grateful for. However, I have learned I can still find ways to be grateful in the middle of despair and later, I am often grateful for lessons learned, for empathy deepened and a heart softened. Gratitude and sorrow can co-exist.
Gratitude is one of those things that everyone knows is a good thing but is sometimes hard to practice. This is especially true when life becomes stressful or hectic. The more you turn your focus to being grateful, the easier and more natural the practice becomes.
Gratitude helps you fall in love with the life you already have. We often want to change the circumstances around us and think when this or that changes– we can then be grateful. I want to offer to you that you can be grateful today!
This time of year, I’m thinking more about the things I have to be grateful for. And money definitely makes that list. Thanks for the fabulous reminder, my sweet boy.
Gratitude is not an attitude, it’s a skill. As a skill, it can be practiced just like you’d practice anything else…the more you practice, the better and more natural the act of being grateful will become.
Two of Satan’s best tools are comparison and isolation, which lead to pain and self-destruction. Fortunately for us, there is a very tangible connection between gratitude and joy.