BE GRATEFUL
"To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy,
but to be grateful for all of our lives -- the good as well as the bad,
the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as
well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections -- that
requires hard spiritual work. Still, we are only truly grateful people
when we can say thank you to all that has brought us to the present
moment. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people
we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot
claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.
Let us not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where
we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a
loving God."
Henri Nouwen
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