Reframe Your Situation With This Simple Piece of Advice

“The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.” — Neale Donald Walsh

I owe my life to poverty

A few months before my birthday my mom was in the hospital with a hospital gown on ready to have an abortion.

The doctor told her that they would have to do a different procedure which would cost more than what she had originally expected.

That’s when she decided to keep me.

Not because she had a change of heart.

Not because she felt regret.

I am alive right now because my mom was too poor to afford the $200 life chaining procedure.

If I were to go back in time and tell my mom to be grateful that she is a poor teenage daughter of migrant workers who can’t afford a $200 procedure, she would likely think I’m crazy.

This is why, for me, it’s important to be grateful for all of the good and bad in our lives.

A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles

I’ve always believed this to be true. The more we actively appreciate what we have, the more we get. The more we are grateful of our present situation (no matter how bad, unfair, or painful), the more we see the good in…