Things for Which I Am Grateful
BY ARLENE HARDER, MA, MFT
Begin each day with specific thanks for what you have been given and open your heart to all that life offers.
 In the fourth entry of my blog, Gratitude in the Morning, I gave a brief description of how I pray before breakfast with a simple prayer of thanks for life and of how I offer two (and sometimes more) statements of gratitude for specific things.
That day, I expressed gratitude for people who were able to comfort a mother whose young child was killed in gang crossfire. The other prayer was for the workers who pick oranges so I can have orange juice every morning. This led to sharing more of my prayers of gratitude and, finally, the decision to bring the prayers from the blog to the spirituality section.
I hope that by sharing my gratitude with you that you can extend your gratitude in ever widening circles, for I am continually aware of how many people contribute to my life even though I may know only a very small number of them.
The picture I've selected to illustrate this idea is a picture I took when my husband and I went on a week-long mule trip in the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada. It reminds me of how grateful I was to have the great pleasure of getting off the mule and resting my bones! It also reminds me of the way in which gratitude is like water flowing over and around obstructions we face every day, bringing with it a reminder of the force that undergirds all of life. Without water there would be no life on earth. Without gratitude, life would be dry and brittle.
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