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GRATITUDE UNLOCKS THE FULLNESS OF LIFE
Once again we find ourselves preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving week. Most of us I'm sure have memories, stories and traditions from our past Thanksgiving Holiday week. I say week because Thanksgiving doesn't happen just on the fourth Thursday of November every year. It takes planning each year from travel reservations, getting work done early so we can take a few days off, cleaning our homes, dinner preparations, losing weight for weeks to gain it back in one hour and the list goes on & on. To have a successful Thanksgiving Holiday takes more than eating a big meal.
Ours lives are much the same, for one to live a thankful life it takes more than just saying thank you. It's being thankful for the little things in life as well as the big things, looking for the best in life. Choosing to live a life of being grateful and thankful changes your life, changes relationships and even can change the atmosphere of a room you walk into. Melody Beattie put it this way,
"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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow"
Have a great Thanksgiving Holiday this week & we pray it is full of God's peace and love. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
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