How often do you take things or life in general for granted? Most of us do often. With life, I have learned over the past few years is far too short to not take the time to really appreciate life in general. We get sick, and we certainly have bad experiences that we've encountered in our lives. I think that if you learn from them, you grow. I have been through more than most people in a lifetime, or than I had ever anticipated I would go through in 'my lifetime' yet I still feel so blessed to be alive and with my sense of humor.
I feel that with each ordeal I live through, I learn from it. Everyday I ask for miracles. Sometimes I think that I have used up pretty much all of my 9 lives, but looking back now it has been about 6. I have 3 to go! Life is good for me and I am a happy camper! So what is a miracle? A miracle is traditionally defined as an extraordinary event by divine intervention, but we also use the word to describe an occurrence that was previously thought to be impossible. Much of what happens to us comes from not having faith in our own inner abilities. We need to be strong and not weak.
Gratitude can be one of these miracles in your life if you let it.
How? By giving you the power to turn any difficulty, any challenge, or any heartache into a blessing.
The thing about miracles is that you have to be willing to see and acknowledge them. If you wanted to keep a pessimistic or cynical outlook, you could easily ignore what appears to be a miracle. I see this all the time!Any miracle can be explained away if a person has a vested interest in remaining cynical. The question to ask yourself is: do you have such an interest? Or are you willing to allow a gratitude focus to perform miracles in your life? Everyday is a miracle if you can wake up and take a breath. Be very thankful, some people are not as fortunate. One must learn how to use gratitude to invite miracles into your life.
1. Never ever say "NEVER".
How many times have you been absolutely certain that something couldn't happen, only to find out later that you were wrong? Oh it happens a lot! When someone tells me that I can't do something, like when I wanted to build my businesses for instance, they said I'd never do it..I proved them wrong. Sure it's a battle of hard work and drive, but their negative energies were the fuel and food that I needed to push myself even further. No is not a word that is located in my vocabulary. Begin to open your mind to the possibilities and believe that what you think is impossible may not be so at all. Just because you can't see any possible way for something to happen doesn't mean a way doesn't exist! Express gratitude for the possibilities you are aware of, and also those you haven't even considered yet. Open your heart and mind to gratitude for the miracles that might be coming your way.
2. Even if something does appear to be totally hopeless by all the laws of physics and tangible reality as we know it, allow gratitude to turn it into a miracle through the grace of acceptance.
Embrace what you cannot change. Let it become something that blesses you rather than hinders you. Even better, let it become something that blesses others. Use your impossibility to change lives and by extension, the world. A way exists if you are open to it. Lean on family and friends. My friends have been my lifeline for the past several years and regardless of what I have done to make a mess out of things, these wonderful people (and you all know who you are) have been there to pick me up when I am down, to catch me what I've fallen, and to hug me when I was sad. Through ups and downs, I have been blessed with some really awesome people in my life, family and friends! My grandmother always told me that "God puts certain people in our lives for a reason" and to those of you, all of you in my life, I say thank you for being a friend. Like the Golden Girls theme song with me you have all traveled down that road and back again, your hearts are true, you are pals and my confidants!
3. Apply gratitude to every hardship, challenge, obstacle and pain in your life.
Be thankful for the ways they help you grow in wisdom and inner strength. Love your illnesses, your heartaches, your struggles and your enemies. I believe in karma and what goes around does come back around! Through love and gratitude, all things are possible. Perhaps the healing will not come in the form you expect or in the exact timeline you hope for - but healing will come and when it does you will appreciate life even more so than you do now. Life is good. Appreciate the little things, for they are truly what means the most. Simply open your heart to it and embrace it, and you will have created your very own miracle. Don't let anyone or anything hold you back! Believe in yourself and you can do anything!
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