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Someone remarked to me the other day that “Gratitude is such a guilt trip!” I was a bit shocked and saddened that the spontaneous feeling of honoring and welcoming something into one’s life could be so twisted into guilt. I know that when I was little, writing thank you letters was a horrible chore: beyond saying “Thank you,”, what else could you say? It felt false and forced. I guess that form of “gratitude” can make one completely shy away off the whole topic.
True gratitude flows from the spontaneous out-welling of love for the giver and for the gift. I admit that one could love the giver more than the gift, and sometimes the gift more than the giver. Sometimes, gift giving has been used as a manipulative ploy: “I give you this, I expect something back” or even better “I give you this, so you must love me.”
The kind of gratitude that uplifts your life and heart and soul reflects the love involved, not the guilt. The Universe notices the love, and responds with giving you more of what you love. If you don’t love it, you don’t get more of it – simple!
I love my cats, all of them for all of my life. They’ve made me laugh till I gasped, they’ve been furry four-footed alarm clocks, they’ve comforted me (and others); I even love them when they break into the box of Girl Scout cookies and feed them to the dogs.
I love my dogs. They, too, have made me laugh. They teach me about loyalty, and having fun, and persistance, and gratitude, and love.
I love my books. I would love to have a library of all the books in the world, in all subjects, good, bad and indifferent. There’s a wonderful book named “Beauty” by Robin McKinley, in which the Beast has a magic library of all books all across time. I want that one!
I love my house. My house stands for financial independance and abundance and personal achievement for me. I want to stop strangers on the street and say “Look at this place – it’s mine!”
I love my partner. Simply, wonderfully, that.
I love the stuff I put on my body. My clothes, my jewelry, my hair decorations, etc. I like putting them on and feeling beautiful.
I love my other stuff, too. I have learned over the years that I do not need to possess something just because I find it attractive. However, I have memories tied up in many of my possessions; they become souvenirs of my life’s journey. Some things I have I created, so they stand for the beauty that I have given to the world.
I love my body. I love my mind. I love my soul. I love my connection with the Divine.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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When I look around me and see all the clutter I have created in my house, I have to wonder exactly what’s going on inside of me to product this outside. Everything that I see outside of me is a projection of my inner self, so this must be what I’m doing inside of me: piles of books, piles of paper, knick knacks crowding the shelves of the hutch. The floors are clear, but every other available surface has stuff all over it! And, actually, the floors aren’t that clear, since furniture fills most rooms.
My feeling of clutter prevents me from letting anything else into my life, be it money or opportunities or even other people. The animals are beginning to look crowded; if the cats weren’t so small and compact, they’d never fit. The dogs are lucky we have a back yard, or they wouldn’t have room to turn around!
As a Divine Being, I have an infinite supply of everything, including time. Given that, I can provide the time to get rid of some of the clutter. I think that if I get rid of clutter, I’d free up the space for infinite supply to come in. Or maybe just manifest a bigger house <grin>. I’d still have to sort all the stuff if we moved!
Why do I have all this stuff? Some of it is avoidance: I don’t want to look at the bills (most of which are automatically taken out of my checking account every month) . Some of the things are what I think I’m going to be using during the day: my notebook for this blog, the book I’m currently reading, the voice recorder with the most recent workshop to upload from, CD’s to burn it on. The piles of books are ones to read in the future; the knick knacks are memories or “just for pretty” (although now their beauty is lost in all the clutter). The shredder is overflowing with papers; the pile is nearly as tall as it is!
The funny part is I have a “system” to file papers; it’s just buried under papers I “didn’t have time” to file…I have bookcases (18 of them), but the books still hang out in piles.
Here’s my daily affirmation, based on Marc Allen, Katherine Ponder, and Jaqueline Aldana’s work:
I am a powerful, creative woman, able to do, be and have whatever I want in life, able to do what I love, and to do it in my own way. I affirm, in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, I take on the challenge of clearing the clutter. I release all blocks, known and unknown, that have gotten in my way in the past, and allow new solutions and abilities to come to me.
Blessed Be!
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