Eating, napping, contemplating the future. Gratefulness for joy, Connor, pictures of Connor, knowing Stephanie and Bo are a part of my life, new bambinos coming into the world, cell phones.
Gratefulness is such a deep deep emotion. I think it sources deeper than love. Love oozes and spills out of us like wildflowers. Those we love so deeply, gratefulness is a huge portion of that. I love and am grateful for my family. I love and am grateful for life.
Love goes out from us whereas gratefulness has to be received. Gifts come so undeserved. We can earn love, respect, companionship. Gratefulness is the by product of something we are not in control of. It's born outside of ourselves like supernovas or apples, fishing rods or ocean waves.
Somehow this issue of being in control of so much of our life and not being in control when an event occurs that makes us grateful humbles us. To be grateful exposes our weaknesses and strengthens us.
Gratefulness connects us to humanity.
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so beautiful written, and more than that ponderable
ReplyDelete“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert