Be thankful, that’s all.
I can tell you some things you can be thankful for right now:
1. That you’re alive. OK, maybe you’re not grateful for that for good reasons, but should be. Alive means you still have a purpose, and the universe -and God – still need you.
2. That you have access to a computer. Lots of people in lots of places DON’T.
3. That you have enough leisure time to read a blog, and
4. that now you are devoting that time to a blog about finding God. Well done!
5. That you can read. Illiteracy is an awful, global problem. We take reading for granted, but actually it’s a great skill, the basis of SO many other things that you can do, like learning.
Five things to be grateful for right there. You may think I’m being glib, but I’m not. I’ve learned through trial and error that there are two ways to go through life: grumbling or grateful.
Grumbling for Results??
Grumbling gets you no where. Grumbling distracts us from seeing the beauty and purpose in our lives because we get caught up in the sound of our own narcisstic voice, and that leads to more grumbling, and nothing EVER seems to happen. We start to adopt a victim mentality (”why me?”) and once THAT happens, we are in trouble, enter the downward spiral. More bad stuff starts to happen, and we think that proves that God or the universe or the Force or whatever is out to get us. What we don’t see is that our grumbling has blinded us to the good things. Life nearly always happens in balance. You get sick, you go on vacation. You are robbed, you get a bonus. The problem is the balance part doesn’t happen day to day. It happens more slowly, over months or years. Bad stuff happens, good stuff happens, but your pride and arrogance blind you to The Bigger Picture.
Grateful and Happy
Want results? Then start to thank God. For EVERYTHING. I did a little experiment on my other blog, let’s see if I get comments: find 5 things in your life that you don’t want and see if you can be grateful for them. You may NOT get what you want.
You’ll get something even better.
God and his Spirit come to give you: peace. happiness. comfort.
true joy: joy of the soul.
I tried and boy, was I a skeptic on this. I went, I sought, I suffered, but I suffer no more. Do your worst, I’m good, and thankful for every single thing that comes my way… thank you God for that!
Remember:
Phi 4:6Â Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Â