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Why is it so Hard to feel Gratitude?

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 18:18

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Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US.

Have you noticed that no matter how poor people are, anywhere in the world, they are all engaged in a desperate struggle for survival?

No matter how bad their life is, they want more of it.

This survival instinct is mirrored by all people no matter their material status.

Life must be pretty good if people cling to it so tenaciously.

However, if we compare the time and energy we devote to ensuring our survival with the time and energy we spend feeling grateful for life; well, there’s no comparison.

I doubt if we spend 1/10th of one per cent of our energy feeling grateful for the thing we love so much that we dedicate the other 99.9% of our energy to maintain.

Part of the reason is that we don’t know whom to thank because the Illuminati have stolen God. God is the magnificent power that gave us the gift of life.

Thank you, God!

Not only do we not feel gratitude, but we also devote a ton of energy to being actively ungrateful.

I’m pretty comfortable but there is a hardly a day that goes by that I don’t rue some investment decision I didn’t made 20 years ago.

Enough is always a little more than what one has, wrote Samuel Butler.

I have to think about people who are suffering in order to appreciate how good my life is. Isn’t that pathetic?

Thanksgiving is a time to think about the glass half-full rather than half-empty, a time to think of what’s right instead of what’s wrong.

And while many have been traumatized by politics, we can be grateful that we still have democracy and a large measure of freedom. Let’s not take that for granted either.

Related – Les Visible Gratitude

First Comment from Peter W

Usually, because people have never been truly without. The ingrates are usually those with enough who want more. Having lived in Africa working with the poor out in the bush I have seen children make toys from coat hangers and shoe polish tins, rubber inner tubes, and food tins while their mothers walked ten miles for well water. I never heard them complain. The men came out with an oft-repeated “Mr Peter we are suffering” daily and they weren’t doing more than stating a fact. As a 26-year-old paid $30 a month they knew I was not Santa Claus but were pleased I was there.

Having to boil water always for drinking, catching Malaria and doing without phone or electrical devices, my bi-weekly treck to the Capital in a Missionary’s truck was a joy.

Later years saw me travel throughout the Middle East, North Africa and India and Pakistan. Deprivation? Go to Mumbai or Kolkota and ask if you would like to live under a plastic sheet on the roadside. So, Henry, it is easier to be thankful yet I too drift into the “I wish I had a newer car” syndrome.

2 years I tasked my youngest son to write a list of 100 things he was thankful for – he declared it impossible and once I explained, came up with a list within ten minutes. Give thanks to God every day for food and friends and home and shelter and electricity and shops with products in them (Romania didn’t nor did post-Soviet Russia), internet shopping, freedom to worship, a job, warm clean water, a bed, sheets, white goods. The list is endless.

Once practised daily the gratitude becomes normal. Do we have all we want? No. Do we have all we need to keep body and soul together? Yes. Did the poor complain in Africa and India? They begged and they sat in the dust but I have heard more complaining at Macy’s on Sale Day than I have in the developing world. And the greatest thing to be thankful for is Salvation through Christ a free gift.

James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Happy Black Friday where Mammon rears its ugly head.

Source: https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/11/a-short-thanksgiving-message.html

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