Celebration: Confronting Complaining with Gratitude

It is easy to go negative when life isn't going the way that we had hoped. Emotions like fear, envy, greed, entitlement, resentment, anger, and regret seem to live just below the surface of our hearts, and emerge quickly in times of difficulty. In fact, at times it can feel hard to resist the pull of the disappointment embedded in these kinds of reactions. But what if there was a way to resist, a way to push back against these emotions that can so easily overwhelm us? How would it change our outlook, our disposition, our character, and even the shape of our lives if we could learn to embrace something beyond the negativity?