What more profound expression of spirituality is there than the constant cultivation of gratitude?
What surer path to happiness is there
than the constant cultivation of gratitude?
The equation of an ultimate expression
of spirituality and a sure path to happiness is perfectly elegant.
Yet there is more.
In human affairs, when one is deeply
grateful to another person, it is natural to ask, “What can I do for you?” Or we might say, “Let me know if I can ever
return the favor.”
Let
us do the same in matters of the spirit.
By asking the Power – however named – to which we are grateful, “What
can I do for you?” we demonstrate our gratitude. By listening for the answer to that question
and acting accordingly, we serve that Power; we become agents of grace; and we
enlarge and nourish the garden of gratitude.
