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Daily Gratitude Newsletter
Volume 3, Issue 5 - June 2007
Putting Gratitude To Work For You
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Thanks to reader Helmut Linde for translating the Gratitude ebook into German! It's available on his web site linde-seminare.de Look for the Downloads link.

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Highest And Best

I wrote in the Gratitude book that we should be grateful for everything, even the difficult, unpleasant or disappoining stuff because there's a blessing in there somewhere. It's true, but it's not easy, and over the last month or so my wife, Sandy and I have had an opportunity to practice this principle.

Gosh, I hate it when I have to take my own advice! And I'm embarrassed about how long it took me to take my own advice in this case. But maybe our experience will be of value for you.

As some of you know, 3 years ago Sandy chose to follow her life long dream to become a minister, and she left a long career in nursing to go to ministerial school in Kansas City. Naturally, that meant that I packed up my business and moved there, too.

After many adventures, she graduated and was ordained, and then the question became "What next?" Like any graduate, she was on a job search, but we know that in a friendly Universe that we are not alone in these things and we trusted that as we took the right actions that she would be led to the right place.

Following that inner guidance that is always available, we moved to this great community in the White Mountains of Arizona, where Sandy was anxious to begin some kind of ministry work. Imagine how we felt when the local church we were attending started the process to hire a new minister! What a "coincidence"!

She cheerfully and expectantly applied for the job, and we continued to affirm that the outcome would be for the hightest and best for the church and for the applicants. That's how the universe works, after all. Always for the highest good for everyone.

Of course, we had a very clear idea of what we thought the highest and best outcome looked like! It's easy to say that we trusted Spirit for the perfect outcome, but in reality we had already decided what that should be.

Dang, I hate these true confessions!

So what happened? The church chose another candidate. Not my sweetie. How dare they! What were they thinking? Blah, blah, mumble grumble. She's feeling rejected, I'm feeling protective and we both think the system failed. How could this possibly be the highest and best outcome? What is there for us to be grateful for? How can we be grateful for this gross miscarriage of justice?

OK, so now we have the opportunity to see if it really is possible to find the blessing in this disappointment. What we found was this - we couldn't find anything good until we started looking for it. My new favorite quote on this is "intention facilitates perception." Until we intend to find the good, we will not perceive the good. So nothing happened while we were wallowing in victimhood.

But after a couple of days, we started to get our act together and look for the good. We realized that the man they hired, whom we knew, was indeed a great minister and very committed to the community. Sandy realized that she was not looking forward to the administrative responsiblities of a senior minister and that her heart and skills were better suited to the pastoral care work she was already doing. The Board members of the church went out of their way to tell Sandy how much they appreciated her.

Gee, maybe this was the highest and best outcome for everyone! What a shock.

So can we be grateful? Finally, yes. Sandy is grateful for the clarity she has about her life's work, and for not having to take on responsibilities she didn't really want. I'm grateful she's happy. We're all grateful the church got a terrific new minister.

It's only human to experience disappointments and spend some time in being judgmental and a victim. But we do live in a friendly Universe, and as our friend Gary Simmons says, "Nothing and no one is against you." So we can determine to look for the good and know that our intention facilitates perception.

Your humbler, but wiser, scribe,
Wes

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