Finally... Gratitude

It has taken me a bit of time on this journey to come to this, gratitude. It's hard to see the good when one is obsessed. I have been so intent on getting rid of all the bad feelings, working on my patience, wondering why life is not going the way I want it to. I needed to go to those places first before I could get to here.

In this moment, I am grateful. I am blessed in ways that I had been so totally clueless to only days ago. As I wake up from sleepwalking through my life, I am seeing that I am surrounded by love, by beauty and by kindness. All around me, every day, every moment, there is something to be grateful for. All I needed to do was to look for it. So simple and within my grasp all this time. Now that I am alert, I have no intentions of falling asleep again.