Gratitude and Karma

Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me.  Jill Jackson Miller

I suspect that gratitude can work as an eraser of karmic burdens. I admit to not knowing a lot about the laws of karma, but what I believe I understand about it is that negative actions in the past continue to be present in the now, and can cause one to go into a default mode of unenlightened reaction. 

If that’s the case, can my positive actions in the now meet those past negatives to clear them? Can continued ‘right action’ create a positive karmic field which could be negated by future default decisions? Doesn’t that suggest that by turning my attention to the positives, being mindful at all times, I can keep from creating ‘bad’ karma? I tend to think so.

That doesn’t mean that only good things will happen! Far from it. Life is life, pain is pain, and hardships befall us all, all the time. How do I meet those hardships? What energy field am I creating by my reactions to them? 

When I start my day with conscious connection to the All, to the Power, to the Birther of the Universe, I am orienting myself to gratitude for what is. That base offers me a firm footing in which to meet the challenges with strength, and to revel in the delights—those things easily missed if I dwell in an energy of “why me?”

Today I will do all I can to meet every action and thought with gratitude. Today I will mindfully see to my obligations, and will do all that is in my power to do, to create only good karma.

Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me.