I didn't get it before

... but I do now.

The gratitude I have this year… wow. Just. Wow. That’s all I can say. Well, actually I can say more, and I will, because that’s what Thanksgiving is all about!

I will probably stumble over my thoughts and words trying to get this out, but the beauty of the very first thing I am grateful for is that I don’t care. I don’t care even a small percentage of what I used to about what anyone thinks because I have realized that being real is what people really want anyway.

I know it’s what I want.

Realness.

I see it everywhere around me in places and people that I didn’t expect it from. I see the way the world around me is changing. It’s not just me. It’s the entire field around me. People are growing and it’s just so beautiful.

Its. So. Beautiful.

I am grateful for the way the relationships in my life have grown and changed in ways I could only have hoped and dreamed of before. In some ways it’s almost unbelievable. But, it’s happening - right before my eyes - the ways that I interact with the people in my life are growing.

This past year I can see how my life has expanded. How the ones that I love, as well as the ones who are regular characters in my life have opened up and become people who are mirrors to me.

I’ve learned that people are the most important thing. Life has become about how I interact with them. How I see them, accept them for who they are, allow them to be whatever it is that they need to be in that moment.

Without judgment. That includes myself.

Without needing to change anything, but also seeing how we are growing and being a part of the world in our own ways. That’s just how it’s supposed to be. It’s all perfect.

I am grateful for the understanding that I don’t need to DO anything. I don’t need to CHANGE anything. I just need to BE someone who allows. Surrenders to life.

There is no need for me to alter anyone or anything. Life is how is is going to be. I am living in my own state of harmony, and there has become very little that will penetrate that.

I don’t even mind that there are many people out there who will think that is not how I should be. That I should be upset about how the world is - how the country is, how there are things in life that are upsetting and should be made “right”.

But, I have the knowing now that life doesn’t need me to do anything to change it. Life is just life. And it is perfect the way it is. Fighting is never going to improve anything, only love is.

I am grateful. There is so very much to be grateful for.

I don’t need to make a list. The feeling is enough. It radiates out of me on a daily basis now and I hope that the energy that vibrates from my very essence is what people I come into contact with will feel from me.

I don’t even need to hope. I know it to be true. When I feel this kind of vibration radiating out of me, I know it is felt by everyone I come into contact with. I have seen it with my very own eyes, in the way people respond.

This is how life works, and I see the difference it makes with everyone I come into contact with on a daily basis.

That’s all it takes.

The love that flows through me now is unmistakable. I understand the power behind it now. I offer it up to every single person I come into contact with because I truly understand the way that it penetrates the world and all the people in it.

I want this for every single soul who reads these words. And I want you all to know you can have it too.

Just be grateful. Everyday. Even if you have to force yourself to come up with the reasons at first. Eventually you won’t have to find the things - the gratitude will just come.

That’s the secret.

It feels so good you just want to tell everyone how it works.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. May gratitude & LOVE ❤️ fill your hearts this day and every day from today forward.