Gratitude and Trust
I woke up the other morning and felt so grateful to be alive, that I was saying to myself, “thank you for the person that made this bread so I could have toast.” And “thank you for the people who make it possible for water to come from the tap.” And I felt so good I was telling Jeff about it, and he said, “You could make that your thing to do every morning…being grateful.” So I said, “Yes I will.”
Next day, I am having a conversation with a friend of mine about money; need more, want more, must have more….you know the kind of the conversation that comes around especially at Holiday time! And she said, “Val you’ve been having this same conversation for years…” I’ve known this friend for about 20 years, so she knows me very well! I said, “your’re right.” And she said, “It’s not about money it’s about trust.”
So we looked at trust and had a great conversation about letting go of worries and coming from a place of trust. After all, I’ve always had enough money, all my life money has come in…so I could start trusting the energy of abundance…right?!
Later that day I am on the phone to an old friend whose father in law had just died, and he is talking about how grateful is for having this man in his life all those years. “He’s still with me,” he said. “Still in my head–I can still talk to him.” Then he told me a story about being grateful.
He had visited Las Vegas with $600 and a gratitude rock in his pocket. He’d been given lots of gratitude rocks by people he had coached. This is a rock or small pebble that people carry around with them to remind themselves to be grateful. He said, “Every time I sat down at a table I would hold my gratitude rock in my pocket and just think about being grateful….I came home with $25,000.00!”
Then he told me, “I never figured out about being grateful until I read somewhere, when you are grateful for things in your life, the universe just opens up and gives you more things to be grateful for.” It makes sense to me….so this morning I got this great email from the friend I mentioned earlier, the one I had the discussion with about trust. Here’s what she wrote, ‘I really wanted to tell you that you instigated a really wonderful meditation on trust and of course I realized that I had a huge trust issue because always being afraid of spending money is total lack of trust. Thank you for awakening all of that in me.’
What a great life! What wonderful opportunities when we open up to trust and being grateful for everything in our lives.
Rock N Roll
Val
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