Gratitude Brings Grace

This is all a part of "Gratitude is the motor of Life". And this is a very true statement.

If you are ungrateful for the good things you already have, why should God and life give you more?

But, if you are grateful for all the good things in your life, more always comes.

Can I explain this fully?

Probably not.

I just observe what actually happens in life. After all I have been able to observe what happens in a clear stream of years since my first memory of archangels when I was 2 in 1950 likely around Christmas time then. So, I have a clear stream of memory every since.

And this is one of the many obvious things I have observed.

IF you aren't grateful for the good in your life often your life ends suddenly or slowly but it seems to end I have noticed pretty soon (or you wish it would end pretty soon).

But, if you are grateful (not phoney) but genuine to the core, grateful, often more and more good thing come to you in your life.

It is in your enlightened self interest to be grateful because of this.


So, if you want to focus on something it is wise to focus on what is good in your lives so that more good can come into your lives.

Otherwise, you might not be around very long (or you might wish you weren't around anymore).

This just seems to be the way life actually is.

I remember being very cynical in my 20s and wishing I was dead a lot. But, even then I was grateful for my parents, my friends, my relatives. And even though I wished I was dead because I was grateful for my parents, my relatives and my friends and the wilderness that I loved so much wherever I could get to it, I found because I was grateful for my family and friends I could not take my life because of what it would do to them. So, I stayed alive so as not to harm my family and friends until my 30s when I was unbelievably happy from about age 32 to 37 home schooling my children at that time.

If I hadn't been grateful for my family and friends I wouldn't have forced myself to stay alive for them, and I would have missed the Amazing Adventure of the rest of my life. For example, in 1985 and 1986 my older children and wife and I went for 4 months to Japan, India, Thailand and Nepal for 4 months time (we could have stayed 2 months more but 4 of the 5 of us got Giardia likely in Katmandu from Feces in the dust then. Every person from California that we knew that went to Katmandu that year got giardia it seemed also. So we weren't alone then. But, after more roads got paved this became much less of a problem after that I heard. This 4 months in all these countries completely changed all our lives and made us all world travelers ever since 1985. This also became true of my younger children as well since then.

So, why did I stay alive in my 20s?

Because I was grateful for my family and friends and I stayed alive for them even when I wanted to be dead.
So, Gratitude saved my life then and it has continued to save my life straight through to my 70s now.

Gratitude is the motor of life which is God's Gift of Grace to us all.

Being Grateful for Friends and family and wilderness and everything else good in my life was the Grace of God that allowed me to choose to stay alive ongoing throughout my life for my family and friends and even now also for myself.

By God's Grace