Gratitude

Melody Beattie, the author of Codependent No More breaks it down into simple terms...

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life, it turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

Be thankful for those things that we have and also for that which we have had.

I'm reminded of the Prayer of Jabez. The fable about the odd-looking building in heaven, the white boxes with red ribbons, filled with the blessings we never asked for.

"Oh,that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)