Thankfulness in Loss

People are amazing the way they handle situations. Some are sore losers while others take it as a part of life. We cannot always gain in life; there are success times and times we lose. But how do we handle loss and still be thankful? Here are some tips:

i.                     Be thankful to be alive

ii.                   Be grateful for whatever and whoever you lost and the quality times you were destined to spend with them or it.

iii.                  Be thankful to be more prepared for the future

iv.                 Thankfulness makes us see the best out of the worst situations.

v.                   Thankfulness in loss opens new doors of opportunities.

Now, we can recall so many reasons to be thankful, please share.

Thankfulness eliminates evil

It was not the way it was taught, but the way the message was conferred to the audience. A target group was taught on the importance of thankfulness. The speaker made his listeners believe it was not only a sin but a crime not to express thankfulness and evil is eliminated when people are constantly thankful since they see and look forward to something worth being thankful for.

This message put the listeners into a thoughtful mood. One listener thought, thankfulness must not be verbally expressed but can be appreciated from the heart without words. Another listener thought the speaker was a preacher and not a teacher. An attentive listener thought the speaker was speaking directly to him; he had thought all that came to him was because he deserved it and there was no need to be grateful, but he had a change of heart.

Which listener are you?

I can be more thankful than you

Some people, mostly those who are self absorbed or full of themselves see themselves as the pacesetters to everything. They make statements to make others feel unlucky and unworthy; they even go as far as believing they can be more thankful than you can.

Bottom line is there is no measuring scale to determine who is more thankful than the other since some people express themselves in a hypocritical manner, you never can really tell what is sincere thankfulness and insincere.

Above all, only life knows who is genuinely thankful for all. I hope you are genuinely thankful.

Thankfulness before Results

Many people particularly religious people have often expressed thankfulness before results. Let us take for example; a man who needs a job to pay his bills, take care of his aged parents and settle down with his childhood sweetheart. It is often said ‘thank before you receive.’ He takes to the innermost part of his heart and is thankful for the job not yet received but he hopes he receives it. After a month, the man gets the job and enough pay check to solve all of his problems. Would we call that faith? Thankfulness before results working? Or luck?

Tell us what you think.

Erin’s way of gratitude

It was not the best times of her life but she knew she ought to be thankful. Erin had been through a nasty divorce and lost custody of her children because she worked hard to give her children a better future. Erin had missed it all; she had neglected her family in sowing for the future. It was not intentional but what she thought was right. She needed to fix things, to make things right. Her job did not seem so valuable now she had lost all she loved.

Erin found a way to express her gratitude; she went to a gift shop and bought three gifts for her husband and her children each attached with a card saying ‘I am Thankful for you’. Erin had been bitter for the past weeks due to her loneliness, but this thought made her feel like a better wife, a better mother and a better person.

Erin posted the gifts and felt peace. She knew the bitterness that had left her would eventually find a way to leave her loved ones. Erin returned to work and gradually healed by thinking about the times she had spent with her loved ones. They were in her dreams, her illusions and eventually in reality.

Erin’s gifts had sent the most powerful message she had ever given. Her husband and children could not live without her and they learnt how to be thankful from someone they never thought could teach them something so valuable.

How do you show gratitude?

When we are Thankful

There is only one way to express gratitude and it is through our actions. We can either smile when we are thankful or show others care but most importantly, we need to express it.
Our inexpression of gratitude is what makes many good things not come our way. When something good enough to be thankful about happens, we can also show an act of kindness to someone we don't know and someone who is in dire need and we are in the position to help.
 The universe repays those who genuinely reach out. 

Why we should be Thankful

This could not be put in a better way but there simply is no reason. We live, we breathe, we love, we care, we share, we are cared for, we receive gifts, we have a shoulder to lean on, someone to listen to our complain; we have sound health, paying jobs, loved ones, good friends and the list goes on.

Only YOU can make your own list and trust me, no two lists are the same because everyone has a reason to be thankful. Be thankful this month; that is the only way you can secure a better future for yourself.