The Councils speak about Gratitude

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How much gratitude can your heart really hold?

Can it expand beyond the concept itself?

Can it hold, and therefore release to grace, the life experiences that you may have deemed  “bad,” “unfulfilling,” “challenging,”  “hurtful?”

We do invite you to take a moment to contemplate gratitude in its most expansive state and how it might be cultivated further within your being.

Is it not true that each experience that has gone before has led you to this very moment, which is full with wonder and which creates your future?

And is it not so that you may once have felt quite differently about each experience that has gone before than you do now, today?

Remember, therefore, that it is in service to your grace to refrain from naming your experiences as aligned with "positive" experience or "negative" experience, no matter whether they are ones that you have initiated, or ones that another has brought on your path.

Release the limitation upon your heart and mind that pushes you to qualify life events as either “beneficial” or "hurtful."  

Instead, from the fullness of your stillness, a stillness which expands beyond your heartspace, beyond your mind, know with certainty that your grace allows you in each moment to say “I am grateful for this.”

Your grace breathes gratitude, a quality that resides beyond judgment, anger, or wishing things had not happened as they did.  

Your grace and your gratitude know that each Being upon your life path does simply hold an aspect of the very same One energy.  And each of these aspects is something to be grateful for.