Daily Gratitude: What’s your definition of a “miracle”? It’s important that you know it for yourself. Each person has their own experience and some things are considered miraculous to them that are “just” commonplace to others. I have grown to believe that there are many miracles happening in my life each and every day. As I recognize them, I give thanks for them. The vibration created with expression (and feeling) of gratitude generates power that continues to energize you and those around you. What would happen if you took just one day and recorded everything that happened no matter how mundane and looked at each of these things and see if you can see the miracles contained within. Look beyond the surface and see what it took to get that “thing” into your life. It wouldn’t take much to look back to the pandemic and see all the supply chain problems we had. Then it was a miracle for us to get some of our essentials when they had to come from other countries. Even certain medications became rare during that time. How often do you take your daily medicines or supplements for granted? The entire process of getting something to you from its raw material is a miracle if you think about it. Be grateful for these things and think about what it would be like if you couldn’t get them. Try it for a day.

Daily Gratitude: I’ve talked about this before. It took me a long time to learn and understand but once I did, it taught me to laugh at myself when I realize I have once again picked up the “saber” of control. Then I try to let go of it and remind myself of all the times when I did let go and how great things turned out when I did just that. You have to have faith and you have to have courage. Examine your past life and come up with times when it turned out better if you allowed the universe to have its way. Find even just one situation and hang on to that. Use it the next time you feel yourself grasping for that elusive devil (control).

Daily Gratitude: The media is good but it’s also not so good. In the media we see people made out to be heroes (unfortunately that word is so overused that it no longer has much meaning). And then we do the inevitable- we compare ourselves to those “others”. The result – we don’t measure up and we feel yucky. Anything we had in mind to work on no longer seems important in the grand scheme of things. So, our project goes back on the shelf. We’re all ordinary. We can do extraordinary things if we have enough of a desire. Break that word down. It’s just extra and ordinary put together. It’s not so insurmountable if you look at it that way. You just have to know what it what you want. You can do anything!