On the Minister’s Mind

Rev. Laine Morgan

After the Sunday lovefest that was the celebration of the 8th anniversary of my ministry at CSLTB, all I can feel is the energy of gratitude flowing all around me.  I know I use that word so often, and you may be weary of my emphasis on it, but please bear with me.   I do have a point!

I ran across this quote by Sukant Ratnakar - "Gratitude is the power to connect with the cosmos and harness its energy."  This resonates with my own beliefs about gratitude and how we use it to create the lives that we deeply desire. 

When we express gratitude for a person, situation, thing or whatever – we are directing our inherent love energy into it.  Since the power of love is creative and expansive, whatever we are showering with gratitude absorbs our energy and grows. As Ratnakar points out, we connect with cosmic energy (love) and harness it, pointing it in the direction of our attention.

Imagine being a music star standing on stage absorbing the energy of the applause of a large audience. The level of appreciation being flooded to that one person is impactful on many levels, and that musician grows as a result. Often they will put their hand over their heart, and their eyes fill with tears as their emotions are touched, they bow in acknowledgement of what they are receiving. Not to mention their abundance growing as copies of their music are purchased with more symbols of appreciation. Each audience member has harnessed cosmic love energy and directed it, right?

Take your ability of harnessing cosmic energy seriously and use this power of gratitude to your betterment.  Shower anything you appreciate with love by all means available to you, because you infuse those things with the energy to grow.  We all want more of the good stuff we find.

This is why I encourage everyone to have gratitude practice every day. Walk around your life noticing the things you appreciate and consciously love them. Speak or write positive words about them. Think good thoughts about them. Touch them.  Give them gifts.  Help them in some way.  Choose to spend more time in their presence.  Basically, speak all five languages of love constantly in support of the people and things you appreciate.

So often we go around noticing and talking about people and things that irritate, challenge or diminish us.  Gossiping or speaking negatively spreads fear and we inadvertently fertilize with our attention the very things we wish would go away.  Why do we give them more power, OUR power?

Change the channel.  Stop scrolling.  Keep walking until your gaze falls on something to love.

Gratitude is a way of living.  I pray you choose it today and everyday.