I love that we spend one day of the year in gratitude for all the graces we have realized in this life so far. I am on a campaign to extend that expression to the other 364 days. It is a habit that anyone can form, and an embodiment that we all can easily adopt. Small but daily changes will manifest this feeling within our hearts. By starting small, we are building the blocks of change necessary to achieve this goal.
Famed American author of self-help books, Melody Beattie, describes this approach beautifully.
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates vision for tomorrow.”
~ Melody Beattie
Traditionally, the day that follows Thanksgiving is a retail day termed as “Black Friday”. I hope we can all turn that day into a ‘White Friday’ by filling the hours with the feelings and expressions of gratitude that we all experienced on Thanksgiving Day.
And when tomorrow’s tomorrow dawns, I hope that feeling lingers still…