Life is hard and the world cruel. No matter how wonderfully fantastic your life is, there will be times when the feeling of emptiness can creep into our lives. As a upper middle class woman in the United States I think, thank God I don't have to carry water miles from a well, or search for firewood and risk rape or worse. I have a roof over my head, hot and cold running water, why am I feeling empty? I think it's human nature that at times a darkness comes over us and discontentment rears it's ugly head. I'm not talking about a clinical depression, but a short term black cloud that seems to hanging over us. For me I've found, the best way to send that darkness away is to start counting my blessings. I don't care what god you believe in, but I do mostly believe in the one God, but I'm not opposed to thinking that she's a woman. Two messages of thankfulness came my way today.
Feel free to insert the deity of your choice for the word "god". I'm not a terribly religious person. All I know is that I am the most happy and at my personal best when I make a conscious decision to operate from a center of love and gratitude and forgiveness. When I'm conscious of being thankful for the food that I really wasn't in the mood to cook for my family or for the ease of an automatic washer and dryer for the laundry that I reaaaallllyyy don't like doing, it is these times that I know I am better able to handle a stubborn child or a cranky husband.
Now mind you, if I did wake up today and find myself with the things I thanked God for yesterday, I'd be hoping that coffee and chocolate would take me a long way. So yesterday maybe I wasn't glowing with gratitude, and I might not be today either, but I am giving it serious consideration.
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