Gratitude is an amazing healer. Every expression of thanks causes a little shift. Your attention moves away from the darkness in your life to the light shining in it. You may feel grateful for something that seems trivial. The feeling may last no longer than an eye blink. It doesn’t matter. Little shifts are cumulative.
Gratitude is one of the soul’s basic nutrients. Expressions of gratitude are expressions of love, and love is the soul’s food. Each time you shift to the light of love your soul will know that it is being nourished and it will want to stay there.
We are human and can easily get pulled back into the dark when our energy and inner resources are running low. But each time we make a conscious choice to find something to give thanks for, it gets easier to turn to the light and the time spent there gradually gets longer. Inevitably, the soul’s voice nudging you to go there and urging you to stay there grows louder than the voices that call you back to the dark.
In time and with practice, you will one day realize that while once there were only flickers of light in the dark, there are now only occasional moments of darkness in the light. Instead of shining at you, now the light shines out of you!
