So true. If you don't appreciate what you have at present, you can appreciate properly if more is given and you won't see what you have to work with either.
Its taken me some accrued years but I am aware that I maybe have more than I deserve. Ok, more than I should have compared to those that have so little. But, then again, they may have more than me, I'm just, mistakingly, comparing apples and oranges.
gratitude is the seed of beautiful things indeed, and that image is the way to start off a week:)
ReplyDeleteAnd so it...being thankful for our blessings is a gift. And thanks for your lovely words in blogoversary post...I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteSo perhaps the moral is to be thankful for what we have, whatever we have.
ReplyDeleteSo true. If you don't appreciate what you have at present, you can appreciate properly if more is given and you won't see what you have to work with either.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful, profound truth! We can be blind sided, sometimes...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the lovely reminder :D
Wonderful words of wisdom, Sherry. They are hard to remember sometimes. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteSuch wisdom...gratitude should come for whatever we have
ReplyDeleteIts taken me some accrued years but I am aware that I maybe have more than I deserve. Ok, more than I should have compared to those that have so little. But, then again, they may have more than me, I'm just, mistakingly, comparing apples and oranges.
ReplyDeleteIn ALL things give thanks...
ReplyDeleteExactly, when nothing is ever enough, we never find happiness. When we are happy with what we have, we have it all.
ReplyDeleteLovely quote Sherry.
Thanks for this- I love it, Sherry.
ReplyDeleteThat is so true!
ReplyDeleteShort and sweet poem!
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