#178

I found this quote on Gratefulness.org by David Steindl-Rast. I have felt all those things in my heart that he mentions and I love how he says gratefulness can help achieve the opposite good.

"Violence has its roots in every heart. It is in my own heart that I must recognize fear, agitation, coldness, alienation, and the impulse to blind anger. Here in my heart I can turn fear into courageous trust, agitation and confusion into stillness, isolation into a sense of belonging, alienation into love, and irrational reaction into Common Sense. The creative imagination of gratefulness will suggest to each one of us how to go about this task."

Here is another quote of his I like. Lots to ponder on gratefulness!

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy –- because we will always want to have something else or something more."

I can tell I need to step up my gratefulness project a notch!