Cultivate Plant, Water, Weed and Fear Not

We have to cultivate thankfulness and gratitude over bitterness and accusation. We have to be intentional rather than distracted. We have to remind ourselves to think about our change in that new light we are cultivating.

It’s not a choice; it’s a hundred choices, a thousand choices, and then a hundred thousand choices.

If we keep doing that, it’s like we’re planting a seed and then watering the ground, fertilizing around it, and weeding it. First we see the shoot, then the leaf, and finally the flower.

In other words, we can grow to cherish thankfulness and gratitude.  We create the grooves by what we do, what we think about, and how we respond until it becomes our default mode of relating.

taken in part from a message by Gary Thomas from the book Cherish