Gratitude For Chooks and My Egg on Toast!

I think the main reason I often don't think about being grateful is that I forget how amazing my life is and all those people who are involved in sustaining it, and making it so amazing!  As I said last week one of the ways we can remember how we are beautifully connection and to practice gratitude is to ... 

• Take a moment before every meal to express gratitude for the food on your plate. Make up your personal gratitude contemplation or prayer to say before eating. 
• Include those anonymous kind people we don't know who do so much to make our amazing lives possible, especially those who work so hard to produce the food that sustains us.

I realise I write these blogs as a reminder to myself really!. When I am mindful of gratitude I am so much happier! Hopefully they are a reminder to you too. It is interesting to watch that negative bias. Why it is that we think it is so desirable or even that we are somehow smarter or more credible when we are negative or cynical? The opposite is true, when we have a positive state of mind and are grateful for EVERYTHING we are so much happier and able to ride life's inevitable ups and downs with resilience. 

So as I am eating my breakfast I have been trying to be mindful of just that, and to be grateful for all those involved and give thanks! It has been blowing my mind a little, as I think about all those people and animals, known and unknown who are responsible for my egg on toast!!
Gratitude for.. bread for my toast

• The elements, weather and farmer, that grew the grain, that fed our chooks, Mabel and Myrtle, and became the flour for my bread
• The farmer who grew and harvested the grain and
• Those who milled it and processed it into packets of flour for me to use
• Those that transported it to the mill, and the factories and finally to the supermarket!
• Those who made the machinery and transport that made all that possible! 
• The shopkeepers who make the product available.
• The oven to bake the bread and electricity and all those involved in there production!!
• The water that comes out of the tap! How does that happen? Many people do not have access to clean safe water let alone taps in the house!
• Jack for teaching me how to make bread!!
• Myself - for the efforts I make to bake the bread and the efforts I am making to be kind and a positive force in the world.

Gratitude for chooks... 

• Mabel and Myrtle who somehow miraculously make the eggs for us! How does that happen, that they produce an egg each day? Well, most days, we all deserve a day off now and then! 

I could go on and on and that is only my egg on toast! So many people, things, and animals make our wonderful lives possible. THANK YOU ALL!

It is such fun to practice gratitude and have this spring to mind rather than negativity and discontent. And don't forget to be grateful for yourselves too!! All those ways you are showing kindness and being a positive force in the world no matter how small.


Have a great week. Thank you all. 
Kind Regards and Best Wishes, 
Maree xx ​