Gratitude While Sheltering

WATCH ON YOUTUBE http://DonateFreshStartPodcast.com I once read that the surest index of your spiritual and emotional well-being is the degree of gratitude in your life. Where does gratitude come from and how can we grow in gratefulness. Grateful people linger over life‘s blessings. The English word thank shares the same route as think. Thankfulness is intimately connected to thoughtfulness. We can’t be grateful without being mindful of the many benefits we enjoy in life and conscious of the rich blessings we have been given. Grateful people take time to rejoice which literally means to experience repeated joy through the remembrance of the grace and goodness one has received. Grateful people live in the moment. Destination disease causes a person to always search for happiness somewhere in the future. For example, when I graduate. When I meet my soulmate. When I pay off my mortgage. When I get the promotion. When I retire. Then I’ll be happy. The prime symptom of destinations disease is discontentment.Those infected by it postpone joy until some distant occasion that may never even transpire. Robert J Hastings offers after advice on making the most of today. "Sooner or later we must realize there is no ideal destination, no one place to arrive at once and for all.The true joy of life outdistances us. So stop pacing the isles and counting the miles. Instead climb more mountains. Eat more ice cream. Go barefoot more often. Swim more rivers. Watch more sunsets. Laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. Relish the moment is a good motto." Grateful people leave fear behind. I like to watch the hummingbirds outside my window as they enjoy the birdbath. This is ancient, yet timely wisdom from Jesus the Christ: " Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or what you will wear. Look at the birds of the air they don’t plant or harvest our store food" or paper products in Amazon warehouses. yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? The words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 6:25 If you are sheltered in place, if you are lonely, struggling, discouraged, worried, I would like to pray for you. Go ahead and call me on my toll free prayer request line and leave a message.877-446-4884. Leave your prayer request message and know that I am praying for you. This is totally confidential. Call 877-446-4884 If you would like to donate to Freshstart podcast to keep this message of encouragement going, you can give a one time or monthly gift. Go to http://DonateFreshStartPodcast.com where you can safely and securely give. If everyone gave a monthly gift of just two dollars we can continue to get our message of encouragement and hope out to the world.