Do we need to be grateful and if so, why and to whom?
We need to be grateful because everything that we’ve got or do is not off our own strengths or even how clever we are. Everything was given to us. Just think about it.
You may say that you did it all by yourself and that you suffered to get what you’ve got. You worked hard to collect all the things you’ve gained in life. You worked clever to get to the top and sometimes you had to do something that you didn’t even like, just to get ahead.
Here’s the thing: even if you did all these thing, it was still given to you.
The brain that you so cleverly use was given to you at birth. You didn’t have a hand in it. You didn’t create it or formed it. You may have developed it.
Your ability to work was given to you. You didn’t form or created it. Your body was given to you. You may have developed it with some exercises.
All of this only means one thing, and it is this: everything that you’ve gained using these abilities was also given to you. Which means that your car was given to you, your house, your clothes, the food you eat, the TV you watch and everything else that you see as yours.
So who do you thank for all off this. I choose to thank God for everything that I’ve got and it doesn’t matter how small it is. If He didn’t want me here I wouldn’t have been here. So it doesn’t matter what happens to me, I am grateful towards God.
You can choose to be grateful towards to God too or to anyone you see fit, or how you understand God to be, like your Higher Self, your Source. The choice is yours.
You cannot get anything if you are not grateful for the things you have now.
Be grateful, just say “Thanks”
To help you understand gratitude better I compiled the 9 Greatest Articles on Gratitude that I could find on the Internet for you.
Lukas Engelbrecht
