How many times have you heard some preacher, motivational speaker, or life coach tell you that exactly what your life is missing is a little bit more gratitude?
If your timeline is anything like mine, how many Instagram quotes on being thankful do you scroll past every day?
Most of us understand the concept of gratitude; why it's necessary; all the things we even have to be grateful for - family, good health, work that we enjoy/at least, pays the bills, and all that goodness. We get it. Lots of people, from just around the corner from us, to halfway around the world, don't have a quarter of what we do, so QUIT that whining right now!
But the truth is, many times, it's very difficult to put thankfulness in practice. Because even though we are incredibly blessed with all these beautiful things, it's hard sometimes not to focus on all that's missing in our lives - especially when we believe we deserve it! Turning a blind eye to what's going wrong is tough business.
Your boss/job is tiresome; you're working so hard, but seeing very little results; your partner isn't being fair to you; you are not where you thought you'd be by now; God isn't moving as quickly as you think is necessary. AND YOU'RE JUST SUPPOSED TO PRETEND THAT ALL THAT CRAP DOESN'T EXIST?
But choosing gratitude will change your life. Not in the way you might be thinking; not in a happy-go-lucky-everything-is-just-fantastic, pretentious kind of way.
Being grateful for what you do have shifts the focus from what you don't have yet (or honestly, may never have because your life will be better off without it) and gives you the freedom to 'be in the now'. And this is not just me spewing out random theories that I myself have never applied - and I'll prove it.
This week, I got a 'promotion' of sorts at work, but not quite in the way I had imagined it. There was still a lot of room for clarity, I didn't get the financial upgrade I was expecting. It didn't come with the glamourous package I had assumed it would.
And that upset me - for a few hours. Until I took a good, close look at where I had started and where God had brought me from, and made an active decision right there and then that I would not insult God by turning my nose up and this ah-mazing gift. Because not only has He been incredible, there's so much more in store for me; I know that as well as I know that the sun will go down, and the moon will come out. So, I have peace.
That's what gratitude (coupled with growing faith in God) does. It allows you to rest. It grants you freedom from constantly having to check behind you, on the look out for what's missing/isn't forthcoming/on the way. Gratitude gives you peace.
I hope you choose it today.
Love,
Kunmi x
If your timeline is anything like mine, how many Instagram quotes on being thankful do you scroll past every day?
Most of us understand the concept of gratitude; why it's necessary; all the things we even have to be grateful for - family, good health, work that we enjoy/at least, pays the bills, and all that goodness. We get it. Lots of people, from just around the corner from us, to halfway around the world, don't have a quarter of what we do, so QUIT that whining right now!
But the truth is, many times, it's very difficult to put thankfulness in practice. Because even though we are incredibly blessed with all these beautiful things, it's hard sometimes not to focus on all that's missing in our lives - especially when we believe we deserve it! Turning a blind eye to what's going wrong is tough business.
Your boss/job is tiresome; you're working so hard, but seeing very little results; your partner isn't being fair to you; you are not where you thought you'd be by now; God isn't moving as quickly as you think is necessary. AND YOU'RE JUST SUPPOSED TO PRETEND THAT ALL THAT CRAP DOESN'T EXIST?
But choosing gratitude will change your life. Not in the way you might be thinking; not in a happy-go-lucky-everything-is-just-fantastic, pretentious kind of way.
Being grateful for what you do have shifts the focus from what you don't have yet (or honestly, may never have because your life will be better off without it) and gives you the freedom to 'be in the now'. And this is not just me spewing out random theories that I myself have never applied - and I'll prove it.
This week, I got a 'promotion' of sorts at work, but not quite in the way I had imagined it. There was still a lot of room for clarity, I didn't get the financial upgrade I was expecting. It didn't come with the glamourous package I had assumed it would.
And that upset me - for a few hours. Until I took a good, close look at where I had started and where God had brought me from, and made an active decision right there and then that I would not insult God by turning my nose up and this ah-mazing gift. Because not only has He been incredible, there's so much more in store for me; I know that as well as I know that the sun will go down, and the moon will come out. So, I have peace.
That's what gratitude (coupled with growing faith in God) does. It allows you to rest. It grants you freedom from constantly having to check behind you, on the look out for what's missing/isn't forthcoming/on the way. Gratitude gives you peace.
I hope you choose it today.
Love,
Kunmi x
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