There is no book that talks about spiritual and heart-full practices that does not include gratitude as central. It’s not hard to see that when we are given something, and truly receive it, our response will be gratitude. In that response we add to the gift making it special. And each time we remember it, we receive it yet again.
Living a life of gratitude is to be showered with receiving and responding and receiving again. The dynamism of living in this state takes training. We have joy limits, sad to say. Yet it is true. Somewhere inside for most of us is a glass ceiling beyond which we will not let the flood of grace go, because then we will lose our small sense of self and be taken into the river of love and be tumbled about.
We won’t be in control. We won’t know where this overwhelming gratitude will take us. We’ll both fear to take it in, or fear that it will go away. What strange human creatures we are taking our bodies, the sun, moon and stars, the air, the water, the trees, and…
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