Opening the Doors of Abundance Through Gratitude----On Fow24news.com

In times of challenges we feel the pains and disappointment so much that it becomes very difficult to be grateful.
No one gets excited over a headache nor will you tell anyone who is sick or broke to be happy about their states, when in actual fact they urgently need attention. The act of gratitude has the power of altering our negative attitude.
You shouldn’t rejoice over a disaster either to you or someone else. Gratitude simply means appreciating that which is working for you. When you are thankful for what is working in your life other aspects of your life will become easier for you to bear. it will enable you to overcome your current challenges. When you allow your present unpleasant situation to becloud your mind, it will weigh you down and put you in a perpetual state of despondency.
I read of a great theology scholar professor Bill Stidger as noted by Norman Vincent Peale. Bill suffered from a nervous breakdown and was in a state of gloom and despondency. Nothing interested or excited him anymore. Through the help or a friend who introduced him to the the act of gratitude, he came back to his normal senses again. His friend suggested that he write an affectionate letter of thanks to those who had helped him in one way or the other.

Bill stidger wrote about 500 of such letters. Most importantly was one he wrote to his literature teacher of which through her help he came to appreciate literature and right till his death could beautiful poetry in a powerful way by which they resonate to the listeners. Here is a reply he got from his literature teacher who then was very old but managed to write in shaky handwriting.
“ Dear Willy
When I read your letter, I was blinded with tears, for I remember you as a boy and, as I think of you, now, I see you as a little fellow in my class. You have warmed my old heart.”
“I taught school for fifty years. Yours is the first letter of thanks I have ever received from a student, and I shall cherish it until I die.”
What a great encouaragement he got. B. Stidger sent many of those letters. Over the years whenever depression tries to set in he takes. Copies of the letter of thanks he had written to people and his joy returns.
Regardless of what you are going through, what are you grateful for?
Gratitude opens the door of abundance.