Gratefulness Happens Before Thinking

As I under from my heartfelt experience of gratefulness, it arises from my heart, not from my head. When a moment of gatefuness arrives, it surprises me and it makes my heart filled with awe and joy. And the beauty of this wonderful arrival of the gratefulness is that it comes without formal invitation and without looking for it. It is sponateous. I love one of Rabindranth Tagore's short poem. He was looking for beauty in the colorful clouds on the Himalayas, and in the flowing water of Mother Ganga, the Ganges. A blooming flower in his front yard looks at the poet and says. " O Great poet, you're lookig for beauty far away though it is so close to you smilingly looking at you!" These are moments of gratefuness. I experience gratefuness in small things such as dust of snow falling on my head, sparrows looking for seeds and feefdng thier little baby birds, a child in a grocerystore smiling and waving his hand, and someone taking care of me as I am getting old and weak. They are Divine blessings and my herat is filled with joyful gatitude. Keeping my heart open to receive gifts of gatitude and wothout seekig gatitude helps me grow in gratefulness. I am blessed to having handful of gracious people in my life and I am vey grateful to them. Nmaste! Jagdish P Dave