Full Moon
January 10, 2009
21 Cancer 2’

Journal Entry, January 1, 2009,9:14 a.m.:

Here I am in a dual state of content and intent. There is what is and what isn’t. It is the first day of the New Year and I did not exactly ring it in.

I went to bed early, and slept through midnight. I would have preferred a more traditional scenario, me with my loved one—us alone or with company. I have a choice to make. I can dwell in dust or dwell in gratitude.

The odd thing about dwelling in gratitude is that it makes all of the content, or lack thereof, not only okay, but a blessing, even a gift.

See if you can feel this with me. Instead of picking apart the present and how you are dissatisfied with it and wish for some future condition that may or may not come to be; you express gratitude for whatever you have. If you can’t express gratitude in what you have, you will find that you are quickly and usually dissatisfied.

Haven’t you had it happen? For example, you get money and you are so happy and you start making plans to spend it, and it just won’t go far enough to take care of all your current desires, and that makes your happiness short lived.

Or maybe you got a job, hallelujah, or got married, hallelujah, or got a date, hallelujah, but pretty soon, it is the job from hell and the disappointing marriage and the date that goes no further, and it’s crying time again.

Relationships are particularly up for scrutiny and we want them to look traditional and they are not. We can start to nitpick. We want more of whatever we think will receive the social seal of approval, and it is absent.

Be grateful for what you have and for what you don’t have. Make an effort to assess the positive qualities of the situation or of the person you are relating to. Count your blessings. Accentuate the positive. Be positive today so that you can be positive tomorrow.

Accept the non-conformity and uniqueness of your situation. Express gratitude for the special blessings that are the gift of your circumstances. Even if you don’t recognize something to appreciate, have faith that there is something to be happy about. Say something like, my life is tailor made to bless me beyond my most outrageous and audacious dreams. Hidden in the creases of its sorrows and the crevices of its lacks, runs the golden vein of my extra special blessings. Thank you. All the good stuff that ever was or will be is here now! It expands and grows and blows me away with the height and depth of bounty and beneficence.

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