Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.

In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

Wholeness invokes balance.

Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.