Mounting Gratitude
by Michael Feeley
Gratitude doesn’t wait for permission. It mounts on its own, whether we notice it or not.
Your heart has beaten roughly 35 million times this year. You didn’t ask it to. Not once. That’s gratitude mounting in the dark, without your attention or your permission.
Gratitude is running cold water from a kitchen sink when you’re thirsty. It’s the interest that quietly appears on money you invested months ago. It’s the car in the driveway, ready whenever you need it, asking little in return. (Merely gas or electricity to help it go.) There you have it once more – mounting gratitude.
Gratitude behaves like grass. You don’t plant it every morning. It just keeps growing, keeps appearing, keeps being there — right under your feet, easy to miss precisely because it’s so constant.
It’s the friend you trust without having to ask twice. The person who counts on you, and you on them. The client who buys what you offer, who becomes income, who becomes a life you get to keep living.
None of this runs out. That’s the part people miss about gratitude.
And – naming it doesn’t use it up. Acknowledging one kind doesn’t shrink the others waiting behind it.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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This is also important – Give Yourself Gratitude Credit.
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