Inspired Action: Holy Flowing Gratitude
Thanksgiving Day, 2012
Smile. Feel the softness of your heart. It changes everything.
In those moments when you forget it’s always a Day of Thanksgiving,
and you feel the burnt edges of life’s disappointments
crusting over the softness of your heart,
when you forget how amazing you and your life
and the people you love and this earth really are,
choose.
Choose, as hard as it may be, as soon as you notice,
to go to your grateful space and breathe.
Breathe in thank you. Breathe out thank you. Smile. Over and over.
Eventually, this holy flowing gratitude will wash over you
like waves cresting in the ocean. And you will feel blessed.
Really. It will. You will. I promise. If you will try.
Just try. Right now.
See. It worked didn’t it?
Feels good, doesn’t it?
What, no luck?
Well, not to sound like that overly-critical, annoying know-it-all
you’re trying to be grateful for,
which is why you’re even trying this in the first place,
but you know you didn’t do it long enough.
Must have some heavy lifting in there. Sorry.
Go back and do it again. And relax. It will work.
I know, you’re right, it may take longer than you like,
but if you keep trying, gratitude will arrive
and the relief you feel when it washes over you
will land you in such a deep state of grace
that tears of joy might even join your party.
Long forgotten memories, people you love,
happy places, recaptured dreams
will begin to flow back into you.
Smile. Feel the softness of your heart. It changes everything.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Love, Mary
