‘The noble use all that they are and have for the good of others.’*

“I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –

Of Chamber as the Cedars –
Impregnable of Eye –
And for an Everlasting Roof –
The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands –
To gather Paradise -“**

While some see less, others see more.

Some say that life for them is the way it is because there is not more around them – people, what people bring, the resources available to them.

More begins within us and what we’re prepared to see.

Gratitude is to see, being open to receive all that is, without judgement, cynicism, or even fear.

Greed is way more subtle than we imagine, essentially never believing or feeling we have enough.  It leads to a life unable to hold or contain all that it is and has, in the lives of others, in ideas and resources, in all fauna and flora and the world itself.

Perhaps there is a direct correlation between being grateful and being able to act, being able to imply what we are incapable of taking deep into our lives.  ven failure becomes something useful to us.

‘So failure and humiliation force you to look where you would never otherwise.’^

Gratitude doesn’t require we possess something or someone to fully appreciate it and benefit from it.  Sharing friendship, ideas, time, and gratitude leads us to understand that we’re generative beings, able to be generous.

This grateful way opens up a ‘universe of possibility’.^^  There is more to our environment than we know, but,even more, our lives and rich and bursting with possibility.

(*From Erwin McManus’s Uprising.)
(**Emily Dickinson, quoted in Rosamund and Benjamin Zander’s The Art of Possibility.)
(^From Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward.)
(^^From Rosamund and Benjamin Zander’s The Art of Possibility.)