A grateful heart will lift your spirit, shift your lens from what you think you lack or need, to recognition of all you do have and enjoy.
A grateful heart will lighten your load and offer you helpful objectivity.
A grateful heart will sharpen your vision to see the miracles in the immediate – like the shifts in seasons, the births of neighbors’ babies, the happiness you see in a child when she runs to be embraced by her daddy.
A grateful heart will alleviate the necessity for sarcasm and cynicism as you find yourself expressing gratitude.
Gratitude will open your eyes to sunsets and sunrises in new ways, to regard each as an opportunity to be thankful for a good day ending and the arrival of fresh starts and new opportunities.
Gratitude welcomes the noises and interruptions of children, even other people’s children, and the elderly, even other people’s elderly, rather than considers both an irritation or interruption.
A grateful person is lavish with thank you-s and praise and enjoyment (in ways that are contagious) despite trying circumstances and, oddly, the gratitude has a way of rewarding those who spread it and rewards the grateful with even more for which to be grateful.
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