Gratitude: What am I grateful for? .#16

I think of gratitude as being different from appreciation.

Gratitude comes up when I avert a situation or things could have gone down differently but they did not. Appreciation comes up when I did not even ask for it and it is just there. There is a sense of relief with gratitude and with appreciation, a sense of the natural order of things. I try to express both each and every day.

I am grateful for so much. I am grateful for my home that I have lived in for 12 years and it is comfortable and lovely. I am grateful for surviving professionally. I am grateful about how I feel being a coach. I am grateful that my computer woes are behind me I think. I am grateful for my body that is still going strong. I am grateful for food on the table. I am grateful for my finances. I am grateful for the fact that the crazy neighbor stays far away from me.

I really do have so much to be grateful for. When so called “bad things” happen to me, it turns out that it was not so bad after all and it worked itself out. I am grateful for that.

Affirmation. I am grateful and I have so much to be grateful for.