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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward
Happy Easter! It is time for another gratitude bullet list. If you choose to write a gratitude journal, it could quite simply be a bullet list like this one, it is not necessary to pick just one thing you are grateful for, and expand on that for an hour. However, I do suggest that in your gratitude list, you should at least write out what you are grateful for in complete sentences, so that you can express exactly what it is to the universe that you want more of.
This list is something I run through everyday, and more than once a day. It is a list I say out loud when I pray each day and give thanks to God. There are days where the list is longer, because something different happened that day, and there are days where the list is a general “laundry list” of things I am always experiencing.
This morning I am grateful for…
- I am grateful for another day of opportunities, whatever they may be.
- I am grateful for my loving, caring, and understanding family.
- I am grateful for my amazing friends who love me, and respect me.
- I am grateful for a job that I love, that provides me an opportunity to interact with so many interesting people each day.
- I am grateful for my car. Not only does it provide me with reliable, safe transportation, but it provides me with a quiet place to meditate and reflect every day during my work breaks. I am especially grateful for the CD player that it came with.
- I am grateful for my blog and the therapeutic release it provides for me each day. I am grateful for being inspired and finding new and interesting ways to express my gratitude through my blog every morning, and I am grateful that people are finding inspiration in my posts.
- I am grateful for having a wonderful home to come back to each day after work.
- I am grateful for being in great health, and I am grateful that each day my body gets stronger, and I lose more weight.
I thank God each and every day for where I am at right now in my life. I now realize that if I could, I would not go back and change a thing, because it has all made me who I am today. People and things were put into my path for a reason, and it all led me right here, right now, and to go back and change one step, no matter how small, would completely alter my present reality.
In the end, I am grateful to be grateful.
