The 'Power of Gratitude' is an exceptional force. We each have so much power with where we direct our thoughts and what we attract into our lives. At every given moment we have the ability to 'shift' and alter events. No matter where we are, we have the power. Life can surely become a mirage of situations and experiences. Some may be very welcoming and others may strike as a brick coming straight at us. How we choose to 'respond', and I did say 'respond' versus 'react', affords each and every one of us to effect any given outcome. Responding to a given situation holds the knowledge that 'divine order' will be the outcome. Acceptance and letting go of controlling the path of such outcome allows us a great gift in the knowing.

There have been many situations I have looked at and found that there are so many times that one 'could' stop allowing themselves to believe they have any power over their lives and that life happens to us. When in reality we happen to life.. Sometimes, there are what we perceive as negative outcomes to our desires, when in actuality just a step closer, even if you do not 'see' in front of you your outcome, please do not sell yourself short by giving up hope. Instead continue to visualize it, 'KNOW' and 'SEE' within you that which what is is you want the outcome to be, and know that has already happened. There are also the times something we may have been holding with intention to see, while being grateful for everything we have not happening. Should we then dis-believe...'NO'. Holding the knowledge that all is in divine order, as I have often seen, places us in a better situation, one of which we were not allowing ourselves to see. Some of the best opportunities have come to me through a situation or event that seemed to be a complete loss or failure. A special gift is for each of us to see these gifts versus the perceived negative event!

Thank you...Namaste! :)

Gratitude is a memory that is stored in the heart not in the mind.

~ Lionel Hampton

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” ~ Sarah Caldwell

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all” ~ William Faulkner

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice”

~ Meister Eckart 1260-1328 Medieval Humanist

“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give." ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869—1935

鄭s life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude." ~ Etty Hillesum, 1914-1943 Dutch Jewish writer

"A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise." ~ Baha’u’llah 1817-1892

" If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true." ~ Wallace Wattles, Author Wallace Delois Wattles (1860 – 1911)

"The thankful heart is always close to the creative forces of the universe, causing countless blessings to flow toward it by the law of reciprocal relationship, based on a cosmic law of action and reaction."

~ Joseph Murphy, (May 20, 1898 - December 16, 1981) Author

“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882-February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting." ~ Unknown Author

"Every man knows that when his wife is appreciating him for the little things that he does, what does he want to do? He wants to do more. It's always about appreciation."

~ John Gray, Author

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving”

~ Kahlil Gibran January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931 was a was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer

“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”

~ Seneca(4 BC- 65 AD) Roman Stoic philosopher