Attitude of Gratitude

I've taken a step back lately. From .....pretty much everything that I like. Music,
make-up, social media, movies, shopping, coffee, creative food storming, wine, even people, and pretty much anything else that makes my heart go pitter patter.

Ive just casually grown apart, and I really believe it happened to me during a time when I was just craving focus, on WHAT and WHO I L-O-V-E. I didn't know why it was happening, or even realize as it was happening I just knew there was something different about me as the days went by.

I started to notice things more everyday, little gifts of awareness, like how good hot water feels in the morning, how fresh fruit tastes, and uniqely apart from all the other fruits. Then I started to notice heart piercing things, at stores like when men and women bark at their children pull at their limbs like handbags because they are frusterated and dont know how to manage their emotions. Couples sitting in restauraunts chewing their food across from each other in complete silence, (some in misery). I think God was letting me see through His eyes, in response to a recent prayer.

Im now attributing this change to a biblical teaching series I had been studying and listening to entitled LOVE. It spoke on true love, Gods kind of love. Focusing mainly on 1 Corinthians 13. I got a vivid illustration on who God really is, and how He IS LOVE. Gosh my eyes were opened to so many new avenues on this topic. At first I actually thought all I knew of love was based on a lie. Not true, we are capable of loving God and others , because HE first loved us. Essentially we could read and enterpret the verses on love like so :

"God is patient, God is kind. He does not envy, He does not boast, God is not proud. He does not dishonor others, is not self-seeking, and He is not easily angered, He keeps no record of wrongs. He does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. God always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

God never fails."

Im grateful. Grateful for all I have. Grateful that I know I have a place with God, even when I feel sometimes I dont fit in with the world. Im sure im not the only one that has ever felt this way. Sometimes all the thingies in the world we think matter just ......plain dont. There will come a day when none of what concerns usnow , tears our heart apart, or stresses us out will matter. Not one bit. Im guilty of taking this life im given for granted more often than not. All I know is that Ive got a heart ooozing of gratitude to my God right now, hope I infected some of my readers with gratitude.

Its the little things that bring me back to life, just gotta take a step back and indulge in Christ.

Peace and blessings friends

~April