Gratitude 09 … God
Today I am grateful for the Divine Essence many call “God” (with all Its names & forms & genders). It is the center of every atom, and the standard-bearer of my conscience. It is the essence of my conscious awareness, and the Light of my Love. It is the inspiration for all my acts of Compassion, and the courage for me to Do what is Right. It is the nurturing “Mother” who provides us all with sustenance, and the guiding “Father” who leads us all from temptation …
So thank you, God. Thank you for keeping me strong while gravity strives to crush me, for holding me together while inertia tries to pull me into the void, for nurturing my faith again & again while disappointment & frustration & hope continually strive to have me ever-yearning for the tenuous illusions of “more” and “better” and “perfect” … Thank you for leading me to still waters of inner calm whenever my outer world is dark and turbulent and sticky.
Thank you, God, for allowing me to choose who I become by giving me the freedom to choose in each moment just how I will Be …Thank you for always gifting me with the next opportunity to enJoy my time — to humbly See the next wonder, to humbly smile with the next celebration, to humbly Love again and again and again (regardless of how many times I hurt or am hurt) … Thank you for ever guiding me back to the courageous Path of selfless Kindness.
Thank you, God, for never allowing me to experience the full brunt of the consequences of my selfish acts, and for always sending me far more Joy than my good deeds have merited …
Thank you for allowing me to see the angel in every demon and the friend in every enemy — for having built my very being from the Light of Love; imbuing me with the innate sense of Oneness that forever calls me to cherish all my brothers and sisters.
Thank you, God, for the rain & for the sunshine … for the cold and for the heat … for love’s warmth and for hatred’s callousness that both make Caring so priceless. Thank you for the wellspring of Goodness that enables us all to laugh with children, to smile at sunsets, and to be moved to tears over the Beauty of the noble deeds of others … Thank you, God, for US — that you & I are ONE, and that I am able to act accordingly as often as I wish.
And it is so that I climb to my proverbial mountaintop, take a deep breath filled with profound reverence, and let loose with a long & loud –
Thank Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
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