{"id":8719,"date":"2012-11-22T00:15:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T07:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becomingblog.wpengine.com\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:35:20","slug":"gratitude-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/gratitude-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude. It Matters."},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.\u201d<\/em> –\u00a0Thornton Wilder<\/p>\n Today, in America, we celebrate Thanksgiving. It is an annual holiday set aside after the harvest season to celebrate life, nourishment, and the blessings we possess. It is a day where gratitude is to be intentionally expressed. And I’ve always liked the holiday. But I’ve come to appreciate it even more recently.<\/p>\n Over the past several years of learning to live a new life focused on the things most important to me, I’m surprised how often I have relied upon the action (and attitude) of gratitude to serve me in this journey. It is a theme that continues to resurface over and over again in my mind and in my writings. And as a result, I have begun to recognize the truly life-changing effects of gratitude.<\/p>\n Consider how gratitude…<\/p>\n With an attitude so powerful for life-change and life-improvement, may this day\u2014and the 364 others\u2014be intentionally filled with thanksgiving. Because I have been learning more and more each day that gratitude matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n