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Short Stories for Teachers

Acknowledge Gratitude
By:Susan Velez

Most people believe they are already grateful for everything in their lives, they also believe that they acknowledge everything that they are grateful for on a daily basis. However if the energy you are sending out is not real, then you are not really grateful.

For instance a quick scenario would be; you order a pizza from a pizza place and they accidentally put extra pepperoni's on your pizza and do not charge you for the their mistake. Since you like pepperoni's you are happy that they put it on there, however as you walk out, you say "thank you" however I wish it would have been ham. Now you are happy that they put extra pepperoni, but deep down inside you are upset because it was not ham.

You believe that you acknowledge gratitude for the gift you were given of extra pepperonis on your pizza however you what you are is really complaining that you did not receive ham.

This works for everything in your life, not just pizza. How many times have you received something and you are happy however you wished it was something different or more or whatever it is. I think everyone has done that at one time or another. When you learn to acknowledge gratitude for everything in your life, you learn to be truly grateful for everything, it is a feeling of deep gratification. Like if you did not have what you just received or have then you would be lost. This is not a feeling you can pretend to have.

As you learn the importance of being able to acknowledge gratitude; you will begin to understand why you have whatever you have in your life. If you are a person with great wealth right now, it is because you have learned how to be grateful for everything in your life and been given more. The same goes with health, if you have wonderful health and you rarely become sick, it too is because you are grateful for everything.

This attitude towards life is extremely powerful, if you do not develop the feeling of gratitude towards everything in your life you can be sure to never experience anything different. You might be thinking yeah well my life is not going the way I wish it was right now. You might be having financial hardships, experiencing relationship problems, or whatever else your life is presenting to you right now. The most important point to believe and remember that as you begin to acknowledge gratitude you learn to develop faith and belief that your life will get better.

There is a saying that goes "Tough times do not last but tough people do." This is so true and as you begin to follow your life's journey all they while learning how to acknowledge gratitude for everything in your life you will notice that things will become easier. You will either get a new career, you will meet someone who has the same interests as you do, whatever it may be. Things will begin to come together for you so that you will have more to be grateful for.

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