Every day is a new day. We cannot carry the troubles of yesterday into today. Each day the sun shines anew, the air is fresh again, the sky is different, and the earth is newly awakened. The birds wake each morning and sing in gratitude, then go about the task of collecting food for their young. They are never disappointed. Nature provides their every need. Each moment we create our own reality and our own world through the gift of gratitude.

Our gratitude for the new day has a very large bearing on how we see the day, and how the day treats us. We have the opportunity at each sunrise, to change any thought, either negative or positive, that we have carried through from the previous day.

What a great gift we are given by Spirit! If our gratitude is truly sincere, we have the addition of an added gift. Every time we send gratitude for a blessing received, heaven takes the acknowledgment and doubles the blessing. Thus is the greatest gift of all time given to us.

The Indigenous peoples of the world knew how to give thanks. They were much closer to Mother Nature, as we were when we first came to earth, and they knew the importance of giving thanks for everything they took from the earth. They would give thanks to the vegetable or fruit before they plucked it from the earth. They would offer thanks for the life of the animal before they killed it.

The Indigenous people did not just give thanks before eating, but before taking life. They were in touch with the vibratory construct of the planet itself. They knew how life worked, and that by giving thanks and gratitude, all things are lifted to a higher vibration.

The great seer, Edgar Cayce, in a trance state, would see the molecules changing in the food as it was blessed.

I was gratified to see the Australian Aborigines blessing the land in a ceremonial way, at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sydney. I felt it was one sign that our world is changing, and that the consciousness of the planet, has indeed shifted.

In fact, at the turn of the century, on the first of January 2000, it was gratifying to see the peoples of the world, all singing in joy at the beginning of a brand new era. It held quite a spell, watching such a momentous event on our television sets, and the world watched in excitement, and some trepidation, wondering what would happen. It became a joy to watch such enlightenment spreading across the face of the planet as people sang and danced in exultation.

The Australian Indigenous people have showed gratitude to the earth and their land by blessing it before the event of the Games. This, to me, seemed a remarkable achievement and a wonderful gesture by the Olympic Committee. In fact, all of this grand event in Sydney, offered an opportunity, and indeed was received as such, for every country of the world to see how giving and sharing can bring about great things.

The Indigenous people of the Americas, the Indians of America, would rise each morning and raise their hands to the sun, singing and dancing, and give praise for the new day. They would always give thanks for anything before they took it from the earth, and pray to the soul of the animal, thanking it for its life, before they took its life and killed it for their food. This was done in ceremonial ways.

Like the Australian Aborigines, the American Indians had members of each tribe who would not touch certain animals. Each of the people within various tribes had their own particular totem. I remember hearing a story of an Indian Chief who would never eat or kill buffalo. When he was old, his tribe left him in his tepee and moved on. One morning when winter was nigh, he was near starvation, and he came outside. There, lying in front of his tepee, was a buffalo that had come to die. It had given its life for him to live, knowing it was going to die, in gratitude for his refusal to kill buffalo!

Gratitude in Nature

I woke up this morning to hear the birds singing. They sing every morning out of sheer gratitude to the new day. They do not hold anything back, but give it their all. Their songs actually cause the vibrations of the air to bring growth to the trees and plants. Have you heard of people telling you to sing to the plants? Plants do respond to light-hearted sounds, and the bird song is one of nature’s greatest gifts to the earth.

The birds do not know where their next meal is coming from, but they sing in gratitude for it, knowing that they will be provided for.

This reminds me of the time the Master spoke of the birds of the air. They do not toil, neither do they reap, yet they are fed and clothed in all of nature’s glory. They ask nothing but receive all, because they are grateful just to be alive.

The birds and animals also understand that gratitude for life, is an assurance that what they need is already provided.

On gratitude, I was told :

Dear One,

When gratitude fills a heart, it not only lifts the vibrations beyond the thought of the human form, but it actually opens the cells of the body and allows more light to enter in. It is the basis of creation. It allows all things to take place. You have read in your holy books that the angels in heaven are continually praising God. This is how life forms - through gratitude. Love and gratitude are the things, above all else, that will lift mankind and create anew. They are what will raise the planet into a new vibration of light.

When blessings and thanks are given for food before you eat it, the cells within the food actually respond and change, thereby altering their composition and creating a vital source of life and light, allowing light and life to enter the body when they are taken. Vegetation is alive and conscious, as well as the animals upon your earth. Each has a consciousness that understands Universal Law, and responds to gratitude, as it understands all things in their place. For when you eat foods with gratitude, you allow the life forms of that which is eaten to enter your system, thereby transforming its life into something else. It becomes another form of energy, which is another form of life. This is the cycle of change that is continually happening in nature, and one which you help to continue, by blessing all that comes to you in gratitude.

Gratitude opens the heart. It allows blessings to come pouring in. Have you not heard that when gratitude fills a heart, heaven takes the acknowledgment and doubles the blessing? This indeed is what happens. It is the law of giving and receiving. All that you give out is returned to you multi fold.

When you send blessings to others, you are opening the path for blessings to flow back to you. It is how all things flow within the Universal Law. Have you not noticed how we close our greetings to you with a blessing? Yes, my child, gratitude and blessing have great power, and are far more than mere words. They hold within them the very power of creation themselves.

Bless you this day.

When we are grateful for what we have, we open a channel for more to come into our lives. If we go about our daily lives grumbling that we don’t have this, and we don’t have that, then nothing that we want will come to us. But when we go about our lives being grateful for all that we do have, then we will find our paths open up, and all that we could ever desire will come to us.

By being grateful, we open the channels for all good things to flow back to us. We can even be grateful for the sad times and the times when we appeared to have nothing. For even in these times, we had opportunities given to us to expand and grow.

The ancient act of tithing actually originated because it followed a universal law. By giving freely without any expectations in return, we open ourselves to receive from the universe. It is a universal law that what you give out comes back. When people were asked to give one tenth of their income and they did so freely, they could fully expect to receive ten times in return from the Universe.

Whatever we give out, always comes back to us many times over. If it is food or clothing we are in need of, then we can be sure that what we give out in the way of goods will always come back to us. We do create what we want by the way we view ourselves. If we believe our income is limited, for example, then we have to ask ourselves who limited it? Our universe is an abundant universe. There is no lack within nature or within the universe. It is only our belief system that is limiting us.

Everything that comes our way can be looked at as a gift in some way. We always receive from the universe what we need the most for our own growth. And remember it is we who asked for this on a soul level prior to this incarnation. The greatest tragedies of our lives can be looked on as stepping stones, or gifts, to help us on our path forward in life. It is when we come to realise the gifts we have been offered that we have begun to understand how gratitude works. It opens opportunities for our further spiritual advancement.

Remember the story Jesus told of the talents? A talent was a particular sum of money in those times. One man had been given one talent, and the other man received two talents. The man with one talent buried his talent, and the other man who had been given two, used them wisely and invested them so that they doubled. When the owner of the money came and saw what had happened, he took the talent from the man who had buried his talent, and gave it to the man who had gained a profit. Jesus was showing us that if we are grateful for what we have, and use it wisely, we have more given to us. But if we refuse to make good with, or bury, what we are given, we lose it all.

I have heard of people who walk around telling everyone that they ‘don’t have’ this and they ‘don’t have’ that. They seem to be forever wanting, and are never satisfied. They may be ordinary people like you and me. They seem to be like us, but they are the type of people who wear you down because they are always complaining that they ‘don’t have’ what they want. They are the ‘have not’ type of people.

Then there are other people who appear to have little, yet you never hear them complain. They will be grateful for the small change they receive from their groceries. They will be grateful for the person who baked a cake for them. They will be grateful for even a small cup of milk, or being able to smell a rose. They are grateful for having seen a sunset. These people are the ones who believe they have everything they could ever want.

The difference in these two types of people is that the ‘have nots’ are never grateful for what they do have. They are always wanting more, and are never satisfied. The people who are so grateful for the small things are the ones who are always grateful for everything. Things just appear to come to them. Can you see the difference in these two types of people?

When people are afraid that they ‘don’t have’ all the time, this causes so much resentment, that wars can start because of it. Why do you think wars begin in the first place? It is because the leaders of a particular country think that another country has more than what they do, and they want it.

From our smallest resentments and arguments, to the total futility of war, it all begins because one party believes he or she doesn’t have what the other one does.

What we believe we have, we manifest for ourselves. If we believe that we have all we need, then the universe provides all our needs for us. Others who see this, think that they should have it, and may try to take it, causing more pain for both sides. Otherwise they go about with resentment in their hearts. They may feel that what they have is ‘not good enough’. What they believe, manifests. What they have, no matter how good it is, will never be good enough, because that is what they believe.

I’m sure we all know someone who is always complaining. It would not matter if you gave them everything you had, including the shirt off your back, they would still be the same. It is their attitude that is the problem. Until they are ready to acknowledge what they have, and be grateful for it, they will always be the same.

We probably all have moments when we are not as appreciative as we should be. We might grumble about something, only to realise later that it was the best thing for us at the time. When we start to realise that what we are given, is exactly what we ask for, then it will change our attitude towards everything. An enlightening attitude will bring all that we desire to our very own tables.

The universe gives us everything, and we often fail to recognise this, and in so doing, we are negating it and pushing it away. Gratitude fills the heart. Resentment cannot live with gratitude. Gratitude is fulfilling by itself.

By being grateful for the small things we do have, we can change the very vibration of the law of life. Gratitude creates a vortex of energy around us, which brings everything to us that we could ever want. The immutable law of giving and abundance, that is Universal, will bring more to those who offer thanks and are grateful, many times over. There is no limit to what we can receive if we open ourselves to the eternal spirit of gratitude that is within us.

When we fail to have gratitude for what we have, we fail to see the opportunities that are there for our growth. We also fail to see the need for gratitude in the evolution of our planet. When we are grateful for all that comes to us, we raise our vibrations, and that of the planet. Once we allow this consciousness to be a natural part of our daily lives, we are assisting in the earth’s ascension in ways we cannot even imagine.

When we begin our day with gratitude in our hearts, we allow all things we could ever desire to come into fulfillment into our lives: peace, love, joy and light.

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