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To be grateful is to recognize the love of god in everything he has given us - and he has given us everything. every breath we draw is a gift of his love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from him. gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of god. for the grateful person knows that god is good, not by hearsay but by experience. and that is what makes all the difference.

-Thomas Merton

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To Be Grateful Is To Recognize The

Thomas Merton

To be grateful is to recognize the love of god in everything he has given us - and he has given us everything. every breath we draw is a gift of his love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from him. gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of god. for the grateful person knows that god is good, not by hearsay but by experience. and that is what makes all the difference.

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A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. we often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. if i gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. to express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Men are four; he who knows and knows not that he knows. he is asleep; wake him. he who knows not and knows not that he knows not. he is a fool; shun him. he who knows not and knows that he knows not. he is a child; teach him. he who knows and knows that he knows. he is a king; follow him. the heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

There are four types of men in this world: 1. the man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. the man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. the man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. in the past i always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now i realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. the discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all i am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. with true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of god's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

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