Gratitude is FUN!

This morning I've been musing on tommorrow's service theme:  Gratitude.  It's the perfect day to do so.  That humid, breezy, after-the-hurricane weather is absolutely beautiful and certainly due some gratitude.  This is going to be a fun week applying this principle.  We give gratitude a relatively restricted place in our lives - we feel it only after something really outstanding happens.  But Jesus taught it as one of the main doorways for entering the "kingdom of the Heavens".  It is one of the most dynamic qualities we have in our spiritual tool box for up-grading our lives.

Bottom line:  Gratitude is FUN!  When you feel grateful the energy that flows out of your heart is like pure honey.  It is desert.  And we don't eat desert because it is appropriate.  We eat it as a treat, a pure celebration after whatever the meal provided.  In fact, if the meal hasn't been all that tasty, it makes the time for desert all that more enjoyable.  So, this week we will take time to feel gratitude as a thread that is woven toughout all our experiences of the day.  In the end, it just feels good.  And, it also alters life for the better.  Practicing living our lives in gratitude is a powerful spiritual practice, yet one that is it's own reward.

I'm about to go off to a memorial service - a chance to feel gratitude for having shared life with someone who has become special to us.  I imagine we can weave gratitude into just about everything we do.  And it seems it would be even more important when life seems dreary.  After all nothing opens up the doors of heaven (here & now) faster than feeling grateful.  And once we master living in a constant state of gratitude the blessing that come within our reach to claim, increase phenomenally.

Tommorrow we will dynamically flood our consciousness with this quality during service.  Hope you are there.  If you can't be, at least catch it on the web.  I am grateful that someone reads this stuff I'm writing.  That means I'm grateful for you!