{"id":324,"date":"2013-11-11T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinganyway.com\/wp\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-02-06T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T17:39:17","slug":"being-clear-about-being-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinganyway.com\/wp\/2013\/11\/11\/being-clear-about-being-grateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Being clear about being grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"

We visited our favorite hot springs last week. There’s a hot pool that’s very hot indeed. When I alternate between that and the cold pool, preferably dipping several times, it becomes quite a fabulous experience.<\/p>\n

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Halleluiah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whether it’s the lymph getting going properly for a change, or toxins (the few that are left) getting sucked out of my system, or my autonomic system finally getting a clue and just taking a break, or possibly all that and something more, I have no idea. But it can be really good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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REALLY good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did my dips and bounced gently on the balls of my feet in the hot pool, overflowing with something like gratitude. I’m no fool (I just take an off-road approach to life) … offering gratitude works, even with a conception of spirituality based more on quantum physics than religious dogma.<\/p>\n

Things go better when I’m classy enough to express whatever gratitude I feel.<\/p>\n

However, it has to be “true enough to write,” my ultimate litmus test of sincerity. (That really is my key phrase when I’m thinking about truth, writing, or both.)<\/p>\n

\"George_Goodwin_Kilburne_Writing_a_letter_home_1875\"<\/a>There’s no fooling the All, because I’m part of it and I know the truth, even when I don’t want to.<\/p>\n

Letting my head fall back into the welcoming warmth, I thought a moment, letting the feeling swirl through me like water.<\/p>\n

Grateful for my life?<\/em>
\nI have to be honest (though it may mean I have an inferior soul or something) … I’d love to be. I think that somehow I ought to be. But really, when you get right down to it… too many caveats.<\/p>\n

Grateful for this day?<\/em>
\nWell, y’know, there was too much of the day left that could go wrong. Experience has been too strong a teacher to make me grateful for something before it’s in the bag.<\/p>\n

Grateful for this moment?<\/em>
\nAh yes, there we go.<\/p>\n

I felt my spine let go of the last knot.<\/p>\n

I could say, without hesitation and with perfect integrity, that I was definitely grateful for this moment. Completely, unwaveringly glad to have it. I was truly thankful for that heavenly bit of space-time I’d found myself in.<\/p>\n

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Heavenly, beautiful… grateful for it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The moment stretched and smiled and wrapped me in blissful arms. It made me stronger and more content, and I faced the bumps and mild insults of the rest of the day with fairly unruffled peace.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a good day. A day to be grateful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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