Access Through Thanksgiving

When driven to despair… I meditate.

I focus on my breathing and think of how this world is not happening to me, but instead, that I am blessed with the opportunity to draw up a positive perception and attitude of thankful response.

It is there that I begin to Thank Jesus for all things, difficult and challenging. I thank Him for the life He gives… and the ability to Love. Then… The hard part… I pray for whoever or whatever is pressing in on me.

Once, I was in a very structured environment where it was very hard for a woman to succeed. Our highest authority was a woman who had seized her place through diligent strength. She was angry one day… and took quite a bit of anger out on me. Unexpectedly to me, I looked her confidently in the eyes and said, “I’m so very sorry that you are having a terrible day”. She made Atilla the Hun seem like a care bear… but there I was. She teared up, thanked me for caring… and turned away. As she left, I knew that she was a very lonely woman. I prayed for her that God would bless her with the companionship of a wonderful man. 1 year later, I attended her retirement and was introduced to a wonderful man that she had met 9 or so months before her retirement.

I know this was a Jesus thing! It kind of floored me.