Gratitude

Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn for those who look upon the world amiss. The most they can do is see themselves as better off than others. And they try to be content because another seems to suffer more than them. How pitiful and deprecating are such thoughts! For who has cause for thanks while others have less cause, and who could suffer less because he sees another suffer more? Your gratitude is due to Him alone Who made all cause of sorrow disappear throughout the world.

Give thanks, but in sincerity. And let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. All these go with you. Let us not compare ourselves with them, for thus we split them off in our awareness from the Unity we share with them, as they must share with us.

We thank our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him. And we rejoice that no exceptions ever can be made which would reduce our wholeness, nor impair or change our function to complete the One Who is Himself completion. We give thanks for every living thing, for otherwise we offer thanks for nothing, and we fail to recognize the gifts of God to us.

Walk then in gratitude the way of love. For hatred is forgotten when we lay comparisons aside. What more remains as obstacles to peace?

When your forgiveness is complete you will have total gratitude, for you will see that everything has earned the right to love by being loving, even as your Self.

Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge.

We have been given everything.

If we refuse to recognize it, we are not entitled therefore to our bitterness, and to a self-perception which regards us in a place of merciless pursuit, where we are badgered ceaselessly and pushed about without a thought or care for us or for our future.

Gratitude becomes the single thought we substitute for these insane perceptions.

God has cared for us, and calls us Son.

Can there be more than this?

Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found.

For gratitude is but an aspect of the love which is the Source of all creation.

God gives thanks to you, His Son, for being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love, along with Him.

Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you.

For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God.

Love is the key.

Everything is attached to that.

Learn to love and there is no real problem any more.

Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of.