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Growing Gratitude

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If you want to live a life that’s full

And with the punches learn to roll

 

Know much of life is attitude

And much of that is gratitude

 

To grow in gratitude is not

A skill you find, but one you've got

 

Put into practice day by day

It then becomes of life, a way

 

There are some things which I have found

It does not like to be around

 

Entitlement, to name just one

Causes gratitude to come undone

 

On the other hand, humility

Seems to be the very key

 

That ushers gratitude right in

Both in the thick and in the thin

 

Gratitude is often found

In places where hope hangs around

 

And though it can’t erase life’s pain

It can spot the rainbows through the rain

 

It doesn’t have to be well planned

Or a gratitude for something grand

 

For thankfulness in little things

Is all it takes to give it wings

 

Both best of days, and hardest known

Gratitude will make its home

 

Where a heart finds one, or one thing more

In the moment to be thankful for

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For gratitude is not found in, 

What could be or what could have been

 

But rather in when we learn how 

To be thankful in the now

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“Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving;”   Psalm 95:2