Lesson #195 “Love is the way I walk in Gratitude.”
Posted Jan 12, 2008 8:46 PM
Lesson #195 “Love is the way I walk in Gratitude.”
Gratitude is a hard lesson for many of us to learn.
It is so easy to feel superior to others…
Taking the stance of less than/more than.
This is like seeing others in more misery/less misery than we…?
This is like seeing others in more abundance or more scarcity that we…?
Or, seeing other’s pains more or less severe than ours?
Or, how low or high we go on our “Pedestal”
To make those judgmental decisions to give us our worth…
( I betcha didn’t realize those were our measuring sticks to seek our worth?)
Jesus maintains it is insane to offer thanks for suffering…
And equally insane to fail in Gratitude.
We get to go to HolySpirit who offers us a way off of that “Pedestal?”
Jesus says Love makes no comparisons.
Gratitude is only sincere if linked to Love.
There is no freedom while we see others bound.
We cannot bargain in the name of Love.
We will let our Gratitude make room
For all who get free with us.
The sick, the weak, the needy, the afraid…
And those who mourn a seeming loss and feeling pain
Or walk with hunger or suffer cold or heat,
Or walk the way of death with hatred and with pain.
All that are there we see like this go with us…
For when we compare ourselves in any way…
We then are separating those from us.
We thank God today for one thing a lone;
That we are not separate from any living thing
Therefore…we are one with Him.
We rejoice with God that no exceptions can be made.
We are grateful for every living thing.
Otherwise, we are not offering thankfulness for anything.
Whereby failing to receive our gifts from God.
We walk in Gratitude today the way of love.
Hatred is forgotten when we do not compare.
The fear of God is undone
When we forgive without comparisons!
When forgiveness is complete
We will feel total Gratitude.
We begin to see that every thing and every one has
The right to love by being loving…as our HigherSelves.
Today we learn there are no comparisons in Gratitude.
We have all been given everything.
If we refuse to recognize it all
We are not entitled to be bitter
Or, in that place of merciless pursuit…
Where one feels lower self-pity or victimized.
God cares for us all…equally!
God calls us all His Children.
God gives thanks to us for being what we are…
His own completion and Source for reciprocal love.
And our love can walk this road of Gratitude
And thus we walk to God…amen!
