Gratitude

When I woke this morning I noted the pain in my shoulder and lower back.  I got up, noted my stiffness and put a bag of trash out by the curb for pick-up.  I was not feeling pleased with any of that and was feeling life to be a chore.  It then occurred to me that I could feel grateful that I was capable of carrying the trash, grateful for my house, the curb and the service to pick it up!  I had a bit of an attitude shift and it now looks like a good day.  “Immersion in God entails a being filled with Him, a divine inflowing.  Biblical men knew well enough that this self-communication of God is the sole destiny of men.” (Thomas Dubay, S. M.)