I am grateful for my health.
I am grateful that I am healthy.
I am grateful because I am healthy.
You may be one of those people who writes about gratitude every day. If you do, here’s a suggestion – add the word “because.”
After many years of writing my daily gratitude list, I got bored. I suspect that your gratitude list and mine are similar. Of course, we’re grateful for family and friends, our home, pets, health, job, etc. All boring expected expressions of gratitude, blah, blah, blah. So I started adding “because” to give depth and meaning to my gratitude, to drill down to the reason why I’m grateful. For example:
- Today I’m grateful for my husband because he’s purposely watching TV in the bedroom with the door closed so I can write in peace in the kitchen.
- I’m grateful for the beautiful weather today because I want to spruce up the planter in the front yard.
- And, I’m grateful for my new neighbors because they’re friendly and so are their three big dogs.
My daily gratitude list is more defined because I’m stating why. Every day, I’m grateful for my husband because…
Today is Sunday. For me, a day of rest and retrospect. A day to re-fuel my inner strength to face the week ahead. It’s a popular thing to write a gratitude list every day as a way to center your spirit. But my gratitude list has become repetitive. Every second of every day, I’m grateful for my family, my husband, my friends, my health, home, brains, beauty, freedom. That list is carved in stone and I can refer to it every day. So now I write, “I love it when….”
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