This semester of school one of my classes had me keep a gratitude journal. Write in it once a week of something that I am grateful for. It has been super great reflecting on my blessings and I decided to start this new blog to continue with this gratitude journal.
I am reminded of a quote I really like that I heard once and sorry I don’t know who originally came up with it. It goes:
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
I have discovered this last semester how true this is, and want to continue this gratitude journal. I’ve decided to make it a blog to hopefully uplift and inspire my friends to have an attitude of gratitude. And no I didn’t come up with that phrase either. It was given in a General Conference talk by President Monson. He said:
“We can lift ourselves and others as well when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. Someone has said that ‘gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.’ …
“Do material possessions make us happy and grateful? Perhaps momentarily. However, those things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us. Unfortunately, these are some of the things we allow ourselves to take for granted. …
“A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort—at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude.”
So as I mention before, my new goal in this new blog of mine is to maintain and grow in this attitude of gratitude I have developed this passed semester. :)
Sincerely,
Sarah
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