“What can I do right now to open my heart in order for me to give and receive God’s love?”

I have posed this question to Spirit every morning during my daily contemplation time.

A couple of days ago I had a nudge to randomly take another card out of the deck.

This is what the Divine handed me answering my request,

“Everything Flourishes in a Grateful Heart” – a card from the Spiritual Laws of Charity.

The biblical verse associated with the card is from 1 Thessalonians 5:18 and it tells us:  “Give thanks to all circumstances for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

I couldn’t help but smile and feel grateful for the answer. In so doing, my heart softened and slowly began to open.

What a wonderful and simple tool to open the heart to loving God.

However, it isn’t always easy to feel grateful when life brings me painful or difficult experiences. How can I be grateful for that? I can mentally tell myself that I am grateful because I know that God is giving me these experiences for me to learn and grow. That’s fine but it doesn’t help one bit to open my heart. It is simply a logical notion or justification to make things okay but actually it does absolutely nothing to heal the ailing or fearful heart.

I can pretend to accept the notion and go on with my life thinking that everything is fine now, but my heart isn’t open and I am living from my mind. From experience I know that sooner rather than later Spirit will bring yet another experience that will reopen the wound and place me right back into the pain or fear and the only reason for this it is so that I learn to open my heart.

It finally hit me that there is one thing I can always be grateful for no matter what the circumstance. It is my love for God thus I am grateful for God.

Now I sit in the mornings in God’s presence and say, “I love you God and I am grateful for you God.” I say it with all my heart, with all my love.

May The Blessings Be!