~ GRATITUDE ~

By Melody Beattie

Say Thank You until you mean it. Thank God for

Everyone and everything sent your way.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns

what we have into enough, and more. It turns

denial into acceptance, chaos to 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. It can turn an existence into a

real life, and disconnected situations into important

and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of

our past, brings peace for today, and creates a

vision for tomorrow.

Gratitude makes things right.

Gratitude turns negative energy into positive

energy. There is a solution, it is gratitude. There

is no situation or circumstance so small or

large that it is not susceptible to gratitude’s

power. We can start with who we are and what we

have today, apply gratitude, then let it work its

magic!

Say Thank You, until you mean it. If you say it

long enough, you will believe it.

Prayer: God, help me to shine the transforming light of gratitude on

all circumstances of my life

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*Relates to Steps 11 and 12 of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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