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How Gratitude Journaling Became Like Brushing My Teeth

Back in 2009 or so, we (a group of women in recovery) started a Women of Gratitude daily gratitude sharing Yahoo Group. I feel like we “stole” the idea from a group of men that were doing similar amongst themselves in our NC city via email. We one-upped them by starting an “official” Yahoo Group (just playing, no one upping!)! Having the Group enabled women to join from all over the world. It was pretty cool (Yahoo no longer supports Groups anymore).

Gratitude journaling became a lifeline for me personally, for many years. I wrote through 2014, when I stopped due to egoic issues. I did not feel safe being vulnerable at that time. Of course, it was all in my head and had absolutely nothing to do with me but stinking thinking is stinking thinking (as most thinking is!)! “³The remembrance of love therefore brings invulnerability with it.”(ACIM, T-10.III.3:3) I forgot Who I was temporarily. Nevertheless, this group, and the act of writing daily became so ingrained in me that if I skipped a day I would feel as I would the few times in my life when I left my home in such a hurry I forgot to brush my teeth…totally off kilter and, well, gross.
It’s time…the time is now…time to get back at it. I know that doing that work on a daily basis (sometimes for hours), soaking in the positivity of “life” and its occurrences, etc., totally and completely set me up for this BEAUTIFUL “world” I live in today, chock full of joy and love…no matter what is going on around me. 

Will you join me?

Today I am grateful for the rain. With our, um, eight dogs, it can mask as a pain (“I don’t want to get my paws wet though…”) but it is a delight. Rain is a beautiful reminder of renewal and growth, especially when it awakens the grass and brings new life to the landscape. It’s a perfect image of how gratitude can nourish our own inner gardens, helping us to flourish and thrive.

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