I Am Grateful

I encourage you to read this once and let it rest with you for a time.  Then read it again as many times as you need to, whenever you need to.  It is written in first person so it can be read as you speaking to yourself. 

I remain open to a different experience.

I am grateful for this present moment, and I live in a state of quiet expectancy, listening and watching for what gently guides my heart, my feet, and my hands toward what is mine to do and mine to become.

I know that respect, appreciation, inclusion, being valued, and authenticity are not gifts bestowed by circumstance or other people. They are qualities of Being itself, eternal expressions of the Divine that live within me and are forever available, regardless of the appearances around me.

I choose to remember who I am.

I remain faith-full, not because I know how everything will unfold, but because I trust the Life that is unfolding through me.

I release what has been. I let go of the need to cling, explain, or resist. Nothing real can ever be lost in Spirit. Every experience is gathered into wisdom. Every act of love remains. Every sincere offering continues its work long after my hands have left it.

And so I move forward with an open heart, empty hands, and great expectancy for the good that is already finding its way to me.

By Rev. Patric Creelman