Love and gratitude

Gratitude has changed my perspective so much. I get to see people and situations in a way that has been so much more honoring and loving compared to critical or offensive. It’s as if I’m seeing things through new eyes. I get to smile more, I get to love more unconditionally and I get to see others and my own situations without judgement which helps me move forward to hope and to just be in the moment, it helps me hold on to what matters most. I get to look at my husband and what he says or does and just love him no matter what, I get to look at the behavior or my 4 year old and have compassion, that even in those times when he’s so overtired and whiny or starts to throw tantrums (that most of the time cause me to respond in ways that are not so helpful or kind) i can still keep calm and allow the storm to swirl around me and not let it control me. I can be who I want to be no matter what. I am grateful that I get to look in the mirror and tell me how much I love me, I get to be grateful for my discomfort and know there’s something better on the other side of it, I get to look at financial struggle and as I am grateful for it and lean into it I see the possibility of overflowing abundance, I get to experience my current pregnancy and situation differently than all my others because I am choosing to be grateful for each part of it and smile and know the perfect spirit that is embodied in my womb and see that there will be a time when I will no longer be able to feel this way, so I embrace and hold on to the feelings I get to feel and hold on to gratitude, the fact that I even get to be a somewhat worthy vessel to bless this child with life and all the same opportunities I have been given. I am so grateful for the feelings of love and peace as I am in the attitude of gratitude, I feel I can say that gratitude can lead to more love and change than anything. What an honor to submit and show gratitude, not only for the joys but the sorrows, not only for the comfort and wellbeing but the pain and discomfort that comes in life and through daily trials. As I have kept a gratitude journal that I write in daily I get to become something different, even better than who I am and have been. It takes great effort and awareness to change my thinking and to refocus my mind and it is so worth it. It has been so humbling and gratifying to learn to submit and to allow change. Daily, consistent efforts and sacrifice of what I have gotten used to in my life is what it has taken for me and is worth every single moment. I have so far to go to become even better yet I feel I have come so far from where I had been. I will keep working and embracing knowing that I am not alone in my efforts and that in the end it will all count toward who I am as a person. I am not going to change the whole world however my whole world is changing and becoming so much better! #insightsfromemily #gratitude #gratitudeforitall #embracingallofpregnancy #infiniteloveandgratitude #submit #change