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a moment of gratitude

Great Rivers of Gratitude, from James O’Dea

Your body loves gratitude! Not a superficial “oh gee, thanks” but a 
deep, heart-connected appreciation that carries love and acceptance 
from a place of higher consciousness and well-being.

Your body loves it because it washes away the biochemistry of stress 
and insufficiency and replaces it with the alchemy of flow and 
emotional warmth. The resonance from gratefulness warms both the giver 
and receiver; it generates a field of appreciation sometimes referred 
to as limbic resonance. In the field of appreciation, we create a 
healing and reviving antidote to psycho-toxins such as “I don’t have 
time,” “I don’t have enough,” or “I am drained.”

Each trickle of gratitude blesses us with its affirmation that we have 
all we need in consciousness itself to gather our strength and honor 
life. Each stream of gratitude clears out the corrosive toxins of 
stress and anxiety in your body and becomes a gift to yourself and to 
others.

Now visualize great rivers of gratitude coming together as we turn 
collectively to face the hour in which we live. “With all of its sham, 
drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world,” wrote Max 
Ehrmann. Even in the face of war, violence, and severe climate 
imbalance, Christopher Fry declared, “Thank God that our time is now, 
when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere.” We can be grateful that we 
are here in this time of earth challenges with an unquenchable sense of 
hope and with a steadfast belief in our human capacity to heal, to 
renew and even to go beyond what seemed our most persistent 
limitations.

So I say let the gratitude flow. We are ready for the challenges that 
exist now and that lie ahead. Let these great rivers of our deepest 
intention flow towards a polarized and distracted world and cleanse it 
with the power of love. We come from all races, all creeds, all 
socio-political backgrounds with one unifying feeling of gratitude for 
life, for consciousness, and for a new evolutionary path forward. We 
come with gratitude for every being that came before us. We have been 
given an epic moment in the journey of life on earth to bring our 
greatest scientific knowledge together with our deepest spiritual 
insight to change the course of history. If you ever thought you were 
insignificant, consider how you are now needed in this great shift. And 
be grateful that you were given such a role and such a time to live in.

Thank you, thank you for what each one of you does to step up and to 
raise the consciousness of the citizens of this world. Thank you for 
feeding these great rivers, even in the face of wounding and denial. 
Thank you for being you.