Feeling grateful is this Sunday’s topic and that certainly describes me today! Life has given me so much to be grateful for and I expect more on the horizon. How about you? Do you stop to consider all the many ways you are blessed? We have the option and opportunity to think on these things or we can think on all the things that are wrong in our lives. I have been taught for years that what we focus on increases, and I find that so true. I would much rather feel grateful and happy than miserable and sad.
Having an attitude of gratitude starts with having an open, trusting heart – one that is centered in peace, potential and possibilities. Even though our bodies are finite, housed within them is an infinite Spirit that yearns to bring more of Its infinite nature through us. Life is an exploration into the unknown and within each of us is a pure, whole and holy Self willing and able to guide us through when we stop and ask for directions. On November 26th I will call a halt to serving as a pulpit minister, just after my 74th birthday, which happens to be on Thanksgiving this year. I have been ever so grateful for these past 21 years and for writing this Thought for the Week for the past 20 of them! Yet at this time I feel the tug to move on to other areas of service and I am eager to find out just what that will be! I am willing to be led by Spirit with a joyous heart. How about you? Are you ready to bring forth something new in your life? Feeling and being grateful for Life just as it is, is a start. Just as the leaves are changing and falling, so too our lives will ebb and _ ow. When we are centered in a deep and abiding knowing we can never be abandoned or lost, a gentle peace passes through us.
Say with me: “I do feel blessed and grateful for so many things in my life. I focus on the good and more good comes to me. Thank you God. And so it is!”
—Rev. Gay Beauregard, Alpine Church of Spiritual Living
