But some of you reading this might ask "what the hell do I have to be grateful for?"
You may be thinking of problems at work. Or maybe you don't even have a job. Your relationship might be crazy. Or you might not have one to be crazy about. You might be living in a halfway house, after having relapsed for the umpteenth time. You may look around your so-called life and not see a single thing to be grateful for. But there is room for gratitude.
Sometimes to find it we must look at the bigger picture, at the world around us. Look beyond ourselves. And when we do that we can find those living with real challenges.
There are homeless people facing a hot summer on the streets. There are those – some of them children – living with serious or terminal illnesses. There are those in other countries who have no hope of ever living as well as we do here. When I think of the real challenges that others live with it's easy for me to bring myself into gratitude.
To bring ourselves into sync we can simply take a deep breath, close our eyes, and do a 30 second inventory of our blessings.
It's one way to bring ourselves into gratitude.
