Hello, God, and thank you very much for this new day in our lives--I really do appreciate it. I have a beautiful autumn day ahead of me, and I promise that I'll try to do all I can to make it positive and joyful. Of course, all the golden leaves on the trees and today's blue skies and cool temperatures will help a lot, and I than you for those things, too.
Sometimes it really is fascinating to slow down and to think of all the beautiful things that surround me every day. All the time. I'm surrounded by amazing things every minute of the day, yet somehow I get caught up in my life and its issues, and I stop seeing just how fantastic this world really is. Is that what it means to become jaded? To stop seeing the miraculous in the "ordinary"? To stop appreciating the beautiful and the sublime? If that's the case, then I don't want to be jaded--I want to keep my appreciation and my awareness of the beauty and magic of the things around me.
One of the things that I pray for is a constant awareness of the good things in life, as opposed to a constant focus on the bad things. I do need to be aware of the bad things, to know what they are and how to deal with them, but I can't let myself stay focused on them. I believe that a focus on them will attract more of the same to me, and it would also be a shame to know that I've been given so many great gifts that I don't enjoy because of the very few real problems that I choose to make the major part of my focus.
I don't want to be one of those people who get fifteen wonderful gifts for their birthday, yet spend the day moping because of the one thing they wanted but didn't get. I want to fully enjoy my fifteen gifts. So thank you very, very much for all of the gifts of today.
A response:
You're welcome.
In a way, I want to stop there. But I know that you appreciate my answers and that you really do think about them, so I'll say a little bit more. I like your focus here. It makes sense. And it also will help you all through life, for when you foster appreciation for the things that you have, your life will be filled with more of the positive things. And you'll also feel better when you appreciate your gifts--you'll feel stronger when difficult things arise, for you'll know that the difficult things are far outweighed by the amazing things. And that does not diminish the importance or severity of the difficult things, but it does provided a healthy perspective based on balance.
I want your life to be a gift, and not necessarily a trial. You were born into this era because of the lessons you can learn here and the person you can become. The trials you go through are different than those of people who were born into different eras and different times. And those trials are much easier to bear when you keep in mind that the gifts that you have available to you are many, and are much more accessible to many more people than they ever were.
Enjoy your day, and enjoy your life!
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