Gratitude is the motor of Life!

 There is always something to be grateful for:

Like Being Grateful you are still alive when your older relatives are all pretty much dead like me.

I'm 77 so that's par for the course in watching everyone (pretty much older than me) pass away one by one of friends and relatives. It's something you cannot really prepare for in life but if you live long enough you will have to watch all your grandparents, your parents and your aunts and uncles and your older cousins might all pass away while you are still alive.

Being Grateful you are still alive when people you know are passing on every day of the week as  you get older is important. It helps you be kinder to yourself and everyone else still alive as well as to pray for all your dearly departed friends and relatives that are gone from the earth to better things.

So, Gratitude is the motor of life.

When did I have the most trouble with this. I would say from ages 10 to 15 and strangely enough from 37 to 50 years old.

Why did I have trouble with this then?

From 10 to 15  years old I thought that God was trying to kill me from a concussion and seizures at night often which were often so bad that I woke up shaking after having been unconscious for an hour or more.

People in their 30s and beyond don't survive seizures like this because they die from Trauma which is why so many people now take medications so they don't have to die young.

However, since what I had is called "Childhood Epilepsy which comes from a concussion when your cranium (skull grows) by about age 15 often these seizures can stop like they did with me.

What happened when I was 37?

My father died who was larger than life and who was 69 years old. HE was one of those people that you would expect to live to 100 or more. However, just being into preventative medicine and organic foods and exercise did not prepare him for Prostate cancer since he wasn't into doctors. So, he died at 69 from complications and metastizationof his prostate cancer to bone cancer. So, about 5 years after he retired at 65 he was gone. 

So, middle Aged Crazy hit me along with my father passing on at the same time. Result: I got divorced eventually from all the changes about 9 years later(we stayed together for the children) big mistake so now we never speak to each other.

However, 2 to 10 I had gratitude down pretty good. My parents were Christian ministers and I got pretty good at gratitude and living in a more "Disneyland" state of mind then.

Life wasn't perfect but it was okay and my parents were very good people who cared for the  people in our church like they were family.

And when I almost died of a heart virus and was forced to retire at age 50 I got back to gratitude for being alive again.

I no longer worried about getting older and dying and instead was grateful for every moment I had left with my friends and relatives.

Gratitude is the Motor of Life!

By God's Grace