I am grateful
Reading about gratitude today, pulled me in. Like a floating balloon, I felt lighter. We had health problems, financial problems, family issues, and on and on. But suddenly it felt like these were opportunities.. to be grateful, thankful.
Gratitude is just a change in perspective. We feel so dragged down by life when so many problems jump upon us at once.
Instead, being present in the now — it rained heavily, the cold air, my hands writing in the notebook, the eyes seeing, what else does one need?
All the issues and problems come and go, but this ingratitude was what felt like a heaviness, like a hundred times of gravity.
And gratefulness is like lightness of a raindrop on the petals of a flower, the gentle way that the earth absorbed these raindrops, like the way a bird flies — lightly and trusting it’s wings.
And in an instant, I feel this joy along with feeling grateful. The problems are all still there, but I’m grateful to be able to work on them, and still feel joyful.
(Reading the right book and music also helped!)
📖🎧
Gratitude is just a change in perspective. We feel so dragged down by life when so many problems jump upon us at once.
Instead, being present in the now — it rained heavily, the cold air, my hands writing in the notebook, the eyes seeing, what else does one need?
All the issues and problems come and go, but this ingratitude was what felt like a heaviness, like a hundred times of gravity.
And gratefulness is like lightness of a raindrop on the petals of a flower, the gentle way that the earth absorbed these raindrops, like the way a bird flies — lightly and trusting it’s wings.
And in an instant, I feel this joy along with feeling grateful. The problems are all still there, but I’m grateful to be able to work on them, and still feel joyful.
(Reading the right book and music also helped!)
📖🎧
