The Gratitude Game
Are you feeling grumpy? Stuck? Depressed? Perhaps it’s time to shift into a place of gratitude. You may be thinking, ‘Gratitude? How can I feel grateful when I don’t have the money to pay my bills, when my body is aching, and when this country is such a mess?!’ And I reply, ‘That is the very time we most need to remember gratitude.’ Gratitude will transform a situation–and us– faster than you can imagine. I have been in the above situations: with no money, with aches in my body, with despair about the state of my country and world. It is GRATITUDE that brings me back. There is always, always…
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Confessions of a World-Weary Pilgrim
Those of you who know me, know that I tend to focus on the positive. Partly, it is simply my nature and partly it’s because I believe it is better for all of us to choose joy. But there are other reasons. One is: I cannot hold too much pain. If I were to try, I know that one problem too many stuffed into this human frame would cause deep ruptures and, like a volcano, my heart would split at the seams pouring forth all this red hot molten lava. That may sound terribly melodramatic, but I can think of no other metaphor that feels so apt. This world is…