Becoming Grateful
I am finding more and more that gratefulness is the path to true joy. And we all want to be joyful. The very thing that robs us is our own selfishness. The most ideal way to overcome selfishness is to fall on our knees and pray. Pray prayers of thanks recalling all that God has done, is doing, and has promised to do in our lives. Sometimes its not easy to be thankful. Sometimes we get so immersed in our desires and longing to control the circumstances that we fail to realize our error. Our error is in thinking we control the outcome of our days and lives. God is the one who directs our paths and sets us upon the Rock in this life. Another path to gratefulness is creativity. As I have mentioned in other posts, creativity is a big part os what we were designed to do. When we live into our true nature we co-create with God. We utilize the gifts he has given us and make beautiful things alongside the Creator of all things. Consider reading a few verses of this site . I