Our family has had the opportunity to participate in Sub-for-Santa projects for the last 36 years. This has always been done anonymously and each time we worked out the logistics of the family’s needs and the children’s wishes through an intermediary contact.
Late Christmas Eve, Santa would deliver bags of gifts and goodies. Most of the time we would never hear back from the families because they only knew a contact person who was sworn to secrecy as to our identity. But occasionally we would get a letter back through the contact person. Most of these letters started with, “I can’t begin to tell you how much your kindness has meant to our family…” That gratitude has meant so much to us and these letters are precious keepsakes. Every time I think of one of these letters, everything inside of me shifts for the better and it makes me want to do more to serve others. The Power of Receiving Gratitude is tremendous.
It will lift your heart, improve your attitude and outlook. Gratitude inspires you to do more. The only downside to The Power of Receiving Gratitude is that you cannot choose when you will get it. If you ask someone for their gratitude, it is not the same and you generally end up feeling worse, no matter what they say.
The Power of Living in Gratitude is less obvious. Living in Gratitude is much more than just remembering to say thank you. It is focusing your efforts on having an attitude of gratitude. Living in Gratitude is a way of being, it is a mindset, it is the way you do life. Although the effects of Living in Gratitude are less obvious, they are much more powerful. You feel it deep within you and when you are living this way, it attracts abundance to you from all areas.
The following are just some of the benefits of living in gratitude: