Father Henri J. M. Nouwen’s Daily Meditation – Sunday January
12, 2014 “The Spiritual Work of Gratitude”
To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is
easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives-the good as well as the bad, the
moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the
failures, the rewards as well as the rejections-that requires hard spiritual
work. Still, we are only truly grateful people when we can say thank you to all
that has brought us to the present moment. As long as we keep dividing our
lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would
rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to
be grateful for.
Let's not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to
where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a
loving God.
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