Depression can easily become a pity party. Our lives are always imperfect. Things don’t always go our way. We have expectations that fail. It is so easy to slide into depression. I just took a shower and reflected before I married my wife I only had a tub. For fifteen years I had no shower. It is all too easily to forget that and the many reasons I have to thank the Almighty for his many blessings. And I have to reflect on that and count them. The list is long. Ingratitude is very easy to go to. Our lives never go exactly as we we want them to. Our lives are always a series of problems and only some get solved to our satisfaction. That is life! If we can go back and count our blessings and learn to do it routinely depression is less likely to set in. God does not promise us anything beyond food and shelter and usually His blessings are abundant. It is too easy to center on what we don’t have. Our unmet expectations can easily turn into depression if you are not careful. And then it becomes a pity party. It is, though, hard to be positive when we don’t feel good. Good health is a blessing.
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Today I will greet with a spirit of gratitude. It is so easy to be ungrateful. To look at your life and see many things that are lacking. I will change the focus of it and thank the Almighty for all his gifts. He has given me so much. And I have to thank Him for so much: Every breath I possess is His. All the material wealth I possess is, also, His. It is only mine temporarily. It is only on loan. As well as the people He puts in my life. All on loan. As well as my wife and direct relatives–my two sisters and cousins. All on loan. I have to thank God for all of it. As well as my friends. I will thank God for all of it and continue to greet this day with a spirit of gratitude. It is all His.
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