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About Giving Thankfulness
Life itself is born and develops thanks to the mysterious gifts and continuous human effort. Normally we do not stop to think about it. We take and we use what we have at our disposal and do not value it too much. Our thoughts preferably revolve around the things that we do not have. It is difficult for us to perceive that the deep conviction of the right of being what one is and having what one has, depends on our capacity of valuing and thanking. Nothing is really ours if we do not know how to be thankful for it. Using what has been created by nature for man in the wrong way or wasting it, or allowing it to become destroyed due to sloth is in itself a denial of gratitude. Many times the values of our civilization make us disesteem that which can have value, or be useful for others. It impulses us to consume beyond our own needs, without the respect of appropriate use. It causes us to transmit the demand of receiving, every time more, without having to show gratefulness. Wasting, and consuming beyond what one is able to appreciate, assimilate and be thankful for is waste, since it takes from those that could need it. Gratitude is the deepest act through which each one recreates life and vitality. The joy of receiving thankfulness is an extraordinary source of energy. Gratitude is not only expressed in thought or words. It is in the same joy of doing, loving and responding. Gratitude is present every time we know how to recognize the value that is in each one of us and in every body else, in all the acts and positive thoughts, in the capacity of becoming interested in people, in the intelligent care one has towards themselves and others. Gratitude promotes the capacity of loving, in the same way that it teaches us to know how to be thankful because it integrates us in the world of that which is valuable. In the emotion that accompanies real thankfulness is already evident when one values what has been received; it makes us feel richer and awakens the desire of giving back love and attention. With the capacity of thankfulness we are able to reestablish the link with the forces of the universe and without own positive energy, because reconcile deeply with life itself, and we give ourselves the permission of enjoying that which is transitorily ours.