ALONG OUR TRAIN RIDE OF LIFE, MAY 2020

Shalom dear readers:

As we continue to travel on the train journey of our life, we are once again at the beginning of a new month, with new and old challenges, trials, ups and downs.
If I were to ask you to elicit the downs and difficulties you are facing at this moment, it would be easy to do. We all know what is lacking, missing, disturbing, unacceptable, difficult, and threatening.
Some drown us -downers, these most difficult realities and are down in our mood and ability to cope.

But amidst and despite all of the above, I am suggesting that we take a jar or cup and write items to put into this cup daily, weekly, as the thought comes to us, of what we have right now that we are GRATEFUL for. We will build up our gratitude jar as something comes up that we are so happy to receive, to feel, to have been touched by, and build up our GRATITUDE JAR .It can  be done daily, once a week, or whenever we are moved to be thankful for some event, some comment, some feeling of wanting to say thank you, dear G., thank you dear friend, thank you dear universe.
I am amazed that as I sit down to write in 'MY BOOK OF ABUNDANCE', which I have been doing since 1996, how much I really do have positive in my life, despite all the downers and difficulties along side.  It can be done daily, weekly, or whenever your feeling is :I need to think of the good things that I do have in my life. The negative features I know too well. But when I take the times to list in short phrases, sentences, on slips of paper, or in a regular notebook, dating each entry ,I find myself amazed and so very thankful, grateful for all these pluses that keep me going, keep me pushing ahead to override the negative reality of illness, corona virus no-no's, painful body and soul happenings, and still hang in and say and write down what I DO HAVE in my life that is making me feel it's worth it all.
I CHALLENGE all of us to open up our positive messages and feelings that are coming our way and downplay our negative happenings which want to drown us in despair. Saving these daily, weekly, monthly or whenever it feels right to do feelings of thankfulness, of GRATITUDE, can and do lift us up to continue on with some hope and pleasant feelings.

We can do it on our laptop, in a notebook, in a jar that fills up and then we get another jar, and slowly build so many things that are grateful for. Some things I enter over and over at each writing and savour the wonderful people, books, prayers, situations, that encourage us to continue on.

G. bless all of us until next month, G. willing.
CHW