Gratitude can be felt in all things, large and small. The tiny pieces of life’s glitter show themselves when the light is right, delighting for just a moment.
Western Australia celebrates it’s wildflowers in early springtime. I was fortunate enough to be traveling there at the time with a group of actors, in our own van and in our own timing. We could stop to look, explore, and enjoy all the obvious, as well as the hidden, wildflowers. Such diversity! So many colors (or ‘colours’), shapes, and sizes! The real treat was when, out walking among all the flora, one of us would come across something tiny and fabulous. It was a wonderland of new discoveries, and it remains a vivid memory for me, even though this happened in the early 70’s.
The beginnings of a double rainbow a day or so ago, in a brief respite of sunshine through the rainclouds, was a large reminder for me to recognize as a gift - a reminder that all things pass.
I think seeing something as a gift is what can best be defined as noticing something which elicits a sense of gratitude - that this thing, this feeling, this moment, this person, this lesson, even this disappointment or challenge, exists for me to recognize for the gift it brings me.
In this moment, I am at peace. Small and undefinable perhaps, but for that, I give thanks.
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