While it is easy to be grateful for the abundance of gifts in our lives, especially on Thanksgiving -all of the goodness – our freedom, our families, friends and the food on our table, it’s appreciation for those that have caused us hurt and pain that give us a real opportunity to truly grow and evolve.
Give gratitude and forgiveness, because those that hurt, hurt. They need it the most.
When we remember that those that hurt are the one’s that are hurting we take the pain out of circulation and we begin to heal.
Our enemies give us a huge opportunity to practice love, forgiveness and patience. For if we do not choose to forgive, we give more power to the pain. In the words of Steve Biko “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
I am grateful today and everyday for the good, the bad and the hateful, as well as the inevitable suffering that comes with life. Bring on the pain, I will take it all and make meaning to grow.
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