More Gratitude

You might never appreciate that step you make until you become disabled: You might never appreciate your spine until you get a spinal cord injury.
You might never appreciate your job until you become jobless.
You might never appreciate the ability to see, taste or smell until such organs fail.
You might never appreciate that coin you have until it's lost.
You might never appreciate your friend, husband, wife, child, father or mother until you loose them.

Being paraplegic has taught me to show gratitude to everything and anyone. Most times I wish to go places and do my own things, I wish to run around with my son but I can't. I wish to sit on the toilet bowl and enjoy my "holy" moment but I cant. I wish I could stand under a hot shower and just enjoy the water run down my body but I cant. I wish for a lot of things...
It hurts me a lot but I have no option other than to take things as they have become and ask for help or forgo whatever I wanted to do. That's how serious things are...
Here are a few quotes to enrich our souls as we ponder on the things and people we have taken for granted.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

{Marcel Proust}

In life, you'll realize that there is a purpose for every person you meet. Never regret knowing someone, good people will give you happiness, bad people will give you experience, while the worst people will give you a lesson, and the best will give you memories.  

God doesn't give the people we want, but the people we need. Trust in God and appreciate everyone he brings into your life.

{Author Unknown}

Now is not the time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

{Ernest Hemingway}

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

{J.F. Kennedy}

And so, I will also encourage you to appreciate the little things in life, and whatever you receive whether big or small, receive with thanks.
Let's have less attitude and more gratitude. 

1st Thessalonians 5:16-18

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.