Why We Need to Have Gratitude for Storm Clouds in Our Lives

This morning, I sit here and write this with awe over my level of faith…

Perhaps I “should” say certainty instead of faith.

We are asked to have the faith of a mustard seed in biblical text, and yes this is all we truly need to see blessings unfold in our lives; however, certainty is a tad bit more, is it not?

Certainty is where we meet the resistance and our inner saboteur. The other day I shared, “Perception is translation.

What we perceive is more a function of what’s happening inside us than out there.” — and I shared this with you because it is something that I have known for all of my life. Mindset is so vital to achieving the life that we desire and want for.

Mindset though is based often in our perception or translation of what we are witnessing without consciousness that we are just witnessing the events around us from the translation of how we are feeling about those events. And that how we feel about any particular event is based on our five senses picking up over two million bits of information every second.

Let’s face it two million bits of information per second is too much to absorb, so our human brains filter things out. Our brains actually delete and generalize most of these bits creating a distorted…