Definitions: (1) causing, feeling, or expressing thanks; appreciative; (2) affording pleasure; agreeable; acceptable
Synonym: refreshing
Quote: Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life. — Joel Scott Osteen (1965-) American pastor
Prayer:
Gratitude to Mother Earth–sailing through night and day and to her soul, rich, rare, and sweet.
Gratitude to plants–facing light, changing leaf, and fine root hairs, standing still through wind and rain.
Gratitude to air–bearing the soaring, the swift, and the silent owl at dawn.
Gratitude to wild beings–our brothers, teaching secret ways of freedom; who share with us their milk, their self–complete, brave, and aware.
Gratitude to water, clouds, lakes, and glaciers–holding or releasing, streaming through all our bodies salty seas.
Gratitude to the sun–blinding pulsing light through trunks of trees, through mists, warming caves where bears and snakes sleep.
Gratitude to the great sky–holding billions of stars–and yet goes beyond, beyond all powers and thoughts–and yet is within us. — Mohawk, The People of the Shards of Light
Comment: Gratitude is a key to abundance, fulfillment, and a happy life. Gratitude is a general antidote to any downward spiral of stress, depression, or conflict. Even when a painful or melancholy attitude is upon you, with gratitude you have a lifeline to the surface. You will still have to deal with the difficulties at hand, but you will be able to do so with a more chipper outlook.
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
Observation: Normally stress is considered a bother, yet knowing how to deal with difficulty crates a necessary balance. The word eustress means “beneficial stress.”
Celebrated: International Gratitude Day is on September 21st.
Symbol: lisianthus flowers