Grace in Action

The word gratitude comes from gratus meaning thankful or pleasing; and Grace, which is said to derive from God’s favor or help, comes from the similar Latin word gratia meaning pleasing quality, good will, gratitude. There is even a Sanskrit word grnati which means to sing or praise, showing similarities to the practice of gratitude. The praise and celebration of all of life in each moment produces the condition of grace, “beauty of form and pleasing quality.”

Gratitude keeps us real, and it is a very graceful way of discouraging us from falling into negativity about what is happening in our day to day life. We are blessed with the opportunity through gratitude to remain humble instead of falling prey to our egos and suffering for it, because it helps us never to take anything for granted, even our breath, and to remember God’s Hand in the play of things. This in turn helps us in our awareness of our surroundings and the need for care and consideration in our dealings not only with the people in our lives, but with our environments as well.

By practicing gratitude, we practice a state of grace where we can elevate even the most mundane action to a highly spiritual place of alignment. Taking a walk, working in an assembly line, serving food in a soup kitchen, making love, changing diapers, anything that we can consider mundane, normal and even boring, can become an opportunity to give thanks, and this is the innate power of gratitude.

In the moment we give thanks for even the most mundane, we are uplifted in energy and that energy creates a higher frequency. The more often we do it, the more we dwell in higher frequencies and the more we dwell in higher frequencies, the higher the frequencies of that which we attract to ourselves; we are attracting a better life simply through our action of gratitude.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop