Gratitude is Borne of Gratitude

 Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.  Eric Hoffer

Both kindness and gratitude are softening agents. They start by softening my own heart and mind against the brittleness of anger, envy, and self-pity. If I try to show kindness to another while internally beating myself up, that kindness shown has no footing. It’s not based on reality. It can remind me of that, and challenge me to look within. Likewise, when I express gratitude, it comes from the innate wholeness which can sometimes feel cut off from the Light. Light doesn’t hide, but it can be hidden by the shrouds I am responsible for placing in my way, blocking my view.

Light insists; I respond. Love exists; I allow. Darkness beckons: I stand in the Light and refuse it. 

I bow deeply to the Power of Gratitude. I welcome its radiance, its peace, its kindness, and I do all I can to recognize my role in being a vessel for it.

My gratitude recognizes the beauty around me, within me, and in those with whom I interact.

May gratitude feed gratitude, and may it multiply in all I do and all I say.

Amen.