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Giving thanks for life

Be in the now of where you are. Give thanks. Sit in a beautiful place, in your imagination or in your reality, and give thanks. Truly give thanks. Give thanks for the air that you breathe. For without it, your body would not be sustained. Give thanks for the food that you ate. For without its fuel, life would go nowhere. Give thanks to Mother Earth and her plenty, her abundance of support, for she stands underneath you and holds you up all day long.

Give thanks to all the people in your life, both known and unknown, who interact with you in many different ways. For they are your teachers. And through their learnings, you evolve and grow to be a magnificent and beautiful being. Give thanks to yourself, for you are the one who is doing all the hard work. And without all of the others, life would be very dull, but without you, there would be no life.

Finally, give thanks to the Self, honour the Self, love the Self and see life as an uphill climb. That is not too arduous. There are ropes, ladders, and friends to help along the way. If you see life as a mountain, it will always be difficult. But seeing it as a gentle slope winding beautifully up a hill is a pleasure and a joy.

If you wish to give a blessing, give a blessing that everybody's life is a gentle, beautiful spiral, climbing ever so gracefully and ever so gently up the hill of their life. And no more mountains. If you see mountains everywhere, you get mountains everywhere. When you are sitting in your prayer, see only beautiful rolling hills, see meadows full of abundant life. See Mother Earth glowing and beaming. And see yourself truly rewarded for all your hard work.

Blessings
Chou