Gratitude

 For those who were at service on Sunday, January 13, 2013 a few bullet points to jog your memory:

·        An attitude of gratitude brings altitude

·        When we are “at altitude” we can see a larger picture

·        Spiritually speaking gratitude allows our hearts to open and see “a larger picture” of our attitudes and our circumstances.

·        Spiritually speaking gratitude allows our hearts to open and see “a larger picture” of other people in our world; a world beyond the words our ears hear and the “pictures” our eyes see.

·        The more we extend gratitude, the greater our hearts are open. The greater our hearts are open the more Love naturally flows from us.  The more Love that naturally flows from us the more we experience love.  What we give is returned to us a thousand fold or even a hundred thousand fold.

·        The more love we give in our lives, the more love we know in our lives and love is the emotion we feel when we are joined with God.

·        Just like a fireplace needs fuel to burn (wood, coal, peat, gas, etc) in order to generate heat. Gratitude is one of the kinds of fuel that our heart burns in order to generate love.

·        Romans (1:21) “for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”

·        Now let’s restate that from the positive, “for they knew God, they did honor Him as God and give thanks to Him, thus they became useful in their thinking, and their wise hearts were luminous.”

·        Gratitude is the fuel of an illumed heart.

 

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To read the complete text of "Gratitude" from Sunday, January 13, 2013,  click here.