Look for Gratitude
by Michael Feeley
I was cleaning my house this morning and somewhere between the vacuum cleaner and the Windex, I suddenly started making a gratitude list.
I was grateful for the vacuum cleaner — and the various attachments.
Grateful for electricity.
Grateful for furniture polish and dust cloths.
For Windex and paper towels.
Running water.
Soap.
Tissue.
Sponges.
Garbage bags.
I hadn’t planned any of this. Gratitude just appeared — unannounced, and it felt GOOD! Refreshing. Exciting, even. Like a window thrown open in a room you’d forgotten could have fresh air.
Gratitude, I’m learning, isn’t a feeling that descends from a great height. It’s more ordinary and empowering than that. It’s a direction you turn your attention. And this morning, cleaning of all things pointed me there — toward the everyday tools that hold a life together, the ones so reliable we might have stopped seeing them.
Now I’m looking for gratitude everywhere.
In the garden.
At my desk.
In the grocery store.
On the osteopath’s table.
Same life. Different eyes.
That might be the whole practice, right there.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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