Day 68: The Gratitude Attitude of Others

Gratitude spreads like a contagion you want to receive.  And when others I read or hear or know express gratitude I am prompted in my own heart and life to express it as well. Their gratefulness for things and people prompt me to think outside of the box I so often get stuck in regarding gratefulness.  Sometimes it is as if once I have run through the generalities of being grateful for "food, clothes, shelter" I can't figure out what to be grateful for when in reality I need, and it is a true need, to get below the generalities and get specific.  That's probably why I liked the prompt I followed for yesterday's Gratitude Attitude.  A dear friend, Crystal, posted this poem on gratitude last night after I went to bed.  It moved me to use it as my Gratitude Attitude for today, her thoughts on gratefulness prompted my gratefulness.  And for that prompt I am...grateful. :)

Thankful month,
Thankful Thursdays,
Thankful, just thankful,
I wonder when we started designating a specific time to be thankful?
Gratitude keeps one sober.
Gratitude keeps one happy.
We should teach thankfulness in Kinder...
We should say thank you at all times.
But I say this in deep regret that I do not say thank you as often as I should.
It is a very vulnerable thing for me to do.
Some how I am afraid of it.
Yet my heart screams thanks.
I say it different.
I cook.
I clean.
I serve.
I think this year I will learn to say thank you aloud!
So thank you!
(Crystal Cates-Alvillar)