Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
We see the benefits of building faith in the divine as the most important goal one can have because if that is not fully in place, every aspect of the life will suffer to some degree by being closed off from divine benefits because your choices will dictate that happening in proportion to your level of disbelief. So one must have that goal in mind, to build faith; without it, a ritual like keeping a gratitude jar can become a kind of superstition, in becoming the sole focus, so one might fear going somewhere without taking their magic jar along because they associate it in their minds with a positive outcome. That is not truly the same thing as acknowledging the benefit of divine grace. In actuality, much of the divine grace is working through them and their own feelings, being a soul-based being with a spiritual core, they are tuning into and wanting to do the right thing more so than not. So, in effect, they are ambassadors of the divine whether they think about this and recognize it or not.
So the benefits of having an attitude of gratitude are always, to some extent, self‑generated as well as the receipt of divine support and harmony with the divine intentions you yourselves launch when you turn to loving thoughts of appreciation. Any time you seek to do acts of loving kindness, you will benefit as much as the immediate beneficiary of your actions. In the same way, when you are a recipient of benefits coming from others, recognizing their contribution to you and validating it by practicing gratitude in a conscious deliberate way is, in effect, paying back the loving kindness granted to you with a similar response that has meaning, and will bring a karmic benefit to the others involved as well as to the self by turning to better divine alignment in the moment, to have such thoughts, and initiate an exchange intending to extend beyond the self, feelings of appreciation.
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