I received a message from a friend I haven’t seen in a few years asking how I am doing. I wanted to say that I am looking at being more grateful for my life and stopped myself because it sounded (to me) as if I am not grateful for my life.
And as I am pondering what I am grateful for today while looking at the last rays of sunshine on the mountains, I realize that some days I feel grateful for little things that I didn’t use to feel grateful for. In my head, I would have said I am grateful, of course, but I wasn’t feeling it. Today, I can see that feeling gratitude is a muscle and as I am practicing gratitude, I feel it more and more. I am grateful for the feeling of gratitude.