Thankfulness

This upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday is an opportune time to experience the benefit that gratitude brings forth in our lives. As we gather this week with friends and family to enjoy our traditional meal we take time to connect with those people important in our lives. Thankfulness is on our minds.

A grateful heart gives so much to us in our daily lives. It is a simple concept but not so simple for me to practice.

When I want for a certain outcome and make plans based on my wishful
thinking I become disappointed when life doesn’t turn out exactly as I want it to be.

When I focus on what I have instead of what I want to have or what is instead of what I want to be, I am more at peace. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.

Gratitude is the key that unlocks my serenity.

Thankfully I catch my thoughts more readily as they wander down that wanting/wishful path and can stop myself from continuing that hurtful form of thinking. When I switch my thoughts to reality and appreciate exactly what is, I learn once again the joy that a grateful heart does bring.

I do after all have so very much to be thankful for in this life I have been given. My guess is that you do too.

What is your heart grateful for today?