Gratitude – a creative force

This Thanksgiving is really big for me when it comes to simply feeling gratitude.  And oh how I feel it.  All over.  Like rain washing down through me.

I suppose I’ve always connected with Thanksgiving (certainly more than Christmas) as I’ve been growing up, yet in the past few years, the level of gratitude that I’ve felt seems to have gone much deeper.  I am more grateful for the things in life that I can so easily take for granted.  Sure, there are the “things” I’m grateful for, like my car, my house, my job, and all my stuff.  And then there are the more subtle, life sustaining things like breath, consciousness, my feet on the ground, the awareness of my connection to something larger than my self (the space between my and self is intentional), my health, my ability to be present in the moment, my willingness to be seen as I am, my close intimate relationships, and other wonderful gifts.  I am grateful for all of this.  I feel so much more alive when I own these for the gifts they are, and feel blessed for the life they give me.

Gratitude is a beautiful thing.  It is a huge creative force.  Simply by feeling it at anytime during my day, it changes everything.   If I’m down and out in some kind of dark place, it shines light into my cave.   If I’m having difficulty manifesting something I want, it can open the door so what I want shows up.  It can lift someone else when expressed to that person.  It can raise the resonance of a whole room or group of people.  It can shift perspective so that everything takes on a whole new, fresh look that’s full of possibilities and hope.

Gratitude is a blessing.  This Thanksgiving I inhale in this blessing, and exhale out my feelings of “not enough”.  I let go of my old, worn out story (pages worn from all the fondling) that there is only so much on this planet or within my self.  I know differently.  I believe in the abundance that is around me all the time, whether I see it or not.  Whether I own it or not.  It is there.  In my breath.  In the blood that pours through my body.  In my thoughts and ideas.  In my love.  In the big sky above me and in the earth that supports me.  In the many eyes I look into.  In the energy that pulses in the universe.

I am grateful for all this abundance.  I am grateful for this emotion of gratitude.   I feel it today.  I felt it yesterday.  Feel it with me tomorrow.  Come… feel it with me, and let’s change the world with this most beautiful, powerful, creative life force.