Today I
am grateful for gratefulness.
I
started this grateful Wednesday segment on my blog, about a year now and one
thing I notice is that once you have decided to be a grateful person, it takes
some amount of effort to foster this grateful attitude, because there are days
when you wake up and because of circumstances in your life, you will find it
challenging to be grateful.
When I
was struggling with infertility, if anyone had ever told me to be grateful, I
would have probably snapped at them. What would I be grateful for, when what I believe
that every woman has a birthright to (the right to be a biological mom) was
eluding me. On even the brightest, sunniest of days, there was always a dark
cloud hovering above me. The thing is, I still had a lot to be grateful for,
life, family, love, I could go on, but this unhappiness was robbing me of the
opportunity to see this.
I would
want to hope that even if I had not overcome my infertility issues, as hard as
it might be, by now, I would have come to a place of acceptance and recognize that
I am still whole even without children and can still strive to be my best self.
From
experience, when you foster a grateful heart, you are a happier, lighter
spirited person and even when things go wrong, and you are tempted to revert to
a woe is me attitude, because of this resolve, you can still push through and
be grateful for even the trials, because most times they do make us better individuals.
Just thought I would let you in on a little secret, if you do not already know, gratitude encourages blessings.
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