"To
be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but
to be grateful for all of our lives - the good as well as the bad,
the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as
well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections - that
requires hard spiritual work. Still we are only truly grateful people
when we say thank you to all that has brought us to the present
moment. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and
people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we
cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be
grateful for. Let us not be afraid to look at everything that has
brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it
the guiding hand of a loving God."
Henri Nouwen
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