What do you think living in grace means?  To me, it is seeking to have gratitude for our daily life, complete with all the challenges we face as well as the blessings.  Logically, we all have thought patterns, whether we are aware of them or not.  Seeking and finding the blessings that are always present makes gratitude an easy goal.  Our mindset has everything to do with how we feel about things.  We always have a choice, whether or not we are in the mental state to recognize it.

The best way to find gratitude is to look for it.  Appreciate the good things, the good feelings we have, the myriad of possibilities that are always there if we look for them.  I recently watched a short video outlining ways to be happier.  Happiness comes from accepting the graces that are always available if one chooses to view life through that lens.  One way of remembering these graces is to write them down.  Seeing these written on paper can serve as a reminder when a bad mood gets in the way of our seeing them.

Additionally, choosing to savor these good feelings and appreciate them as graces in our lives is a chance to grow in gratitude.  When we realize that in every minute there is the opportunity to think positively, we open up the possibility of seeing through a positive lens.What we choose to see in any situation, is totally up to each of us. No one else has the ability to influence your opinion, unless you allow it to happen.

I have experienced making good decisions and making many unhelpful ones in my life.  I think most of us can recognise these behaviors in ourselves.  It never serves a good purpose to be negative about anything.  In fact, a negative attitude prevents us from seeing the positive.  What we believe affects every thought and every feeling.  Beliefs are powerful.

Now, after having written this all down, I may be able to remember to do these things more often.  Maybe not, but I am going to try hard to do much better.  That’s really all anyone of us can do.  And the payoff may even encourage a good habit to form.  At the very least, attempting to see the positive in any situation is bound to affect us better than seeing things negatively.  Living in grace is a very worthy goal.