For All I Have

 I’m so very grateful for my abundance. 

This is a new way of thinking for me, and it bears the sweetest fruit: contentment. All of my needs are met. Many of my wants are met. If I choose to have peace in this moment, it’s mine. If I choose chaos, it’s equally mine. 

I could, if I had any desire to, list all the ways in which my life isn’t perfect, all the opportunities missed or turned away from, all the ways I could feel cheated, and all the ways I can measure myself and my life by my perceptions of lack, the ‘if only’s, and the ‘should have’s.

“Perception” is the key word. I have choice in how I perceive my life, my choices, and my world. I can choose how I want to react, and make each day a rehearsal in positivity. That doesn’t negate the bad stuff; bad things happen all the time, but I don’t have to invite any of it into my psyche. When I need to feel the sadness, I’ll feel it to get through it. To the best of my ability, I won’t wallow. 

Gratitude is what allows me to see the good, to feel the positives, to be a change agent, and to rest in what is. It keeps me in the here-and-now, instead of the ‘someday’s. 

I’m so very grateful for all I have.