I Am Grateful

My message today is about gratitude, not just any gratitude, though that would be enough, but about my gratitude. I am grateful first of all on this Memorial Day for all those who served our country and the world so that we could all be free to feel gratitude for their service. The other things would make a list so long it would make you ungrateful to read it, so I will keep those things understood between us.

I am involved in three courses all designed to help me become more responsive to positive energy radiating around me - and indeed around us all - that will allow me to realize my potential once I attune myself fully with it. I realized this afternoon that negative energy can so easily pull my vibration down to a lower level than I would otherwise maintain. I realized also that keeping positive energy is my responsibility, it only makes things worse if I blame outside elements for any negative energy I take on. Of course many of you already understand this far more thoroughly than I, but perhaps it helps to keep reaffirming this point.

I was trying to struggle through all this, addressing the negative while not taking it on, when I suddenly felt the gratitude I hold for so much in my life, starting with my gratitude I feel for the dear one closest to me in all things. From there the list blossomed out into a quickly expanding one that would be far too long to ever complete here but which I will repeat in my heart every day.

As I begin to feel this list pour out from me I felt a higher energy come over me than I could have ever imagined otherwise. This wonderful sensation reminded me of all the wisdom I have heard and read recently concerning the restorative power of gratitude, some of it expressed by those of you reading this right now.

I am grateful for all of you dear friends who share this journey. I am grateful for all the wondrous opportunities opening before me to fulfill my life mission of helping others to fully realize their potential while fully realizing my own as well and enjoying all possible ways of expressing this dream with unlimited creative imagination. I am grateful for the feeling of being completely open and at one with universal energy as this new mission manifests itself around me and as I fully realize my true potential in becoming my full self. I am grateful for the location in which I live for its helping me to have perspective on the way opening before me, and I am grateful for all those who help to guide my way, not least of all my dear partner and my excellent guide dog both of whom are with me every step of the way.

I wish for you all this beautiful awareness of all these blessings that surround each of us in our own special and wonderful ways. We all walk a road of many blessings together and what can be more wonderful than this very thing so long as we each allow ourselves to feel it with every fiber of our being.

May you feel the road rise up always to meet you and may you sense the great universal wind ever at your back!