These 30 Days have shown me a lot. They’ve shown me how much I have to be thankful for, how much awesome I have to celebrate in my life. These 30 Days have shifted my frame of mind from questioning what do I want to what do I need. But it’s also shown me something else: Gratitude doesn’t always come naturally, it has be cultivated, grown, nurtured.
Do you agree?
My heart feels so full, so overflowing for all of my blessings right now in this moment. My family and I are heathy. We own our home; it’s warm inside; I live in the most beautiful city in the world. My children are glowing, I don’t question where my next meal will come from, I get to take hot showers and drink coffee.
But in the busy of my life, inside all the bustle and crazy, these are the first things I forget. I loose track of all that I already have in the shadow of all that I must do or what others have already. And that’s because gratitude has to be cultivated and nurtured.
I have to recognize it in my daily life. I have to celebrate the beauty, the kindness, and happiness that my life holds already. And when I can do that, when I can make sure that my mind is in a gracious, loving, admiring place, then the struggles I face aren’t as hard or monumental. Cultivating gratitude means I’m balancing the positive with the hardship. When I’m holding what’s important up, everything else starts to fall away.
And that feels so important.
I never want to loose track of all I have in my life to show gratitude for. I never want to loose track of my blessings. My gratitude garland is a good physical reminder of that. But so are my children. So is my mortgage bill, my plans for Saturday night, the clothes in my drawers, the school where my kids learn so much. Perspective truly is everything.
Life is beautiful, my friends. And I’m so very thankful for it.
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