Gratitude

Last week the Save the Sloth Challenge was to practice genuine gratitude.

While looking over Erwin McManus' website today I read this and it really touched my heart. I've been ungrateful and I didn't know it until I read this. WOW!

Perspective is a fascinating thing. It impacts everything. Perspective is not formed in a vacuum. It is the expression of our measure of gratitude. Grateful people are thankful for what they have and enter with minimal expectations of others. They see the glass half full since they expected nothing and are thankful for what is given to them. A person who is ungrateful wonders who took the other half of their drink. All of us struggle with selfishness but brokenness justifies it. Ungratefulness creates unreasonable expectations. Whatever is done is expected. It is never enough. An ungrateful person cannot be made grateful by meeting their demands. Until a person is willing to appreciate life, serve others, and even sacrifice of their own possessions they will never find the healing they so long for and need. The pathway to wholeness is the development of gratitude. Gratitude is the beginning of the ethos from which wholeness emerges.

Read it all here: http://www.erwinmcmanus.com/broken-pieces