Gratitude

Gratitude has been my focus for the month of March. It’s so true that what you pay attention to, you become conscious of, or where attention goes, energy flows. This beautiful post came up in my facebook feed and as I’m prone to do, I kept it to share with everyone! For me, it so sums up being grateful even as the piece focuses on the very painful moments we experience as we journey through this life. So here it is, a truly inspiring piece from Donna Ashworth and it reads like this :

There will be some very painful moments in your life my friend.

There will be moments, days even,

when the sun doesn’t seem to rise in your sky and the breath feels sucked right out of your lungs.

When food has no taste, the world has no joy and everything seems like an effort too far.

Yes, my friend, there will be very painful moments in your life.

But you will get through them,

‘This too shall pass.’

Because life has a way of throwing you a rope, just at the very moment when you thought, you couldn’t swim another stroke.

All you have to do is grab it.

And one day, as is the way of this life, the sun will suddenly beat down on your face again and the air will feel fresher than it ever did.

And there will be laughter.

And love.

And joy.

So much joy.

And life will be sweet, like summer after a long winter.

A winter that was so dark each colour that appears, feels like the first time you are seeing it.

This is when you must live, really live.

For, just as the bad times do not last forever, neither do the good, ‘This too shall pass.’

But that is life.

So, embrace the joy when it comes and let fear slide away.

And when the dark times come around again, and they will, remember you have what you need to survive.

And you will survive my friend, you really will.

Keep the important people close,

focus on what truly matters

and you will find yourself dragged to safety, each and every time the storms come.

And on those days,

when your sun is high in the sky

but you notice another facing bad weather, you drop your raft and you go to them.

And if they won’t climb in with you, to safety, you simply stay with them in the stormy water, till the sun rises again.

And it will.

it always does.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘to the women’https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08LRGWY74/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabt1_OYLVFbX4YR91V

With so much going on in the country right now (gosh yes in South Africa, for the last goodness knows how many years, but we’re not counting), it’s even more important to focus on those things in your life that you can be grateful for. And essentially, everything that you have, every experience whether good or bad, every smile, every heartache, every illness, every bit of good health – all these things are what we should be grateful for. Because, this is what helps us to grow. This is what makes us strive for greatness, for a perfect world filled with peace and harmony. And even if within this space of gratitude, it still feels like there’s huge turmoil and strife, just imagine how much more prevalent it would be, if we didn’t recognise that these experiences are our lessons. Those lessons that we chose to go through when we came into this lifetime and when we’re ‘feeling it’ that’s when you know that you’re ‘doing it’ – you’re achieving overcoming and understanding the lessons you chose. And you can only consistently grow and evolve, with no regression – only onwards and upwards.

My prayer for you today is that live through every moment of your life in absolute conscious awareness of you, your behaviours, how you show up in the world and what you do for others and to others – what role you are playing to make this world a better place. And that through that awareness, gratitude will grow inside you to the point that it overrides every other negative emotion that you so easily default to.

Go well my friends, until we meet again

I remain as always

In love and light

Yours in service

Glynis