Be a Blessing: Having Gratitude

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.
Alan Cohen

Always be grateful each day for something..even when it seems the world is closing in on you and drowning you. For starters  you are alive...you are fairly healthy.....you have someone somewhere that cares about you namely God and me if no one else seems too. Keep imagining the first blossom showing its face  in the height of winter finally coming to a close. Remember how that feels within your heart. It brings a warmth and slight joy the worst is over. Being grateful for something even miniscule  feels the same way. So smile :-)  today is a blessing even if there is a lesson within it .

1 Thessalonians 3:9, NIV How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you?