Comments on: The rescuing power of gratitude

By: Leah

Leah — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:24:47 +0000

This is great food for thought. I want to know what’s going on with around me so I can pray and be grateful but not let hide from it or let it increase the anxiety in my life.

By: yvonne

yvonne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:22:47 +0000

Some days I can hardly believe what is on the news.

It is so reassuring to remember that “God is over all”. And stopping to count our blessings is always so helpful. This is the perfect week to remember.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:52:38 +0000

Thank you! As always, you’ve given me exactly what I need. Are you spying on me?

By: DeNae

DeNae — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:47:23 +0000

I learned some years ago that gratitude is essential to mental and spiritual health. It is absolutely NOT optional baggage. If you are going to continue on this trek called mortality, gratitude absolutely MUST be the first thing you pack.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:17:20 +0000

Yesterday was one of those tempest-tossed days for me. I can see now why I didn’t have time to read this post until right now. It’s helping me heal and let go of yesterday. I almost didn’t want to go to church today, because I knew it would be filled with gratitude, and I didn’t feel grateful for anything yesterday! But gratitude is exactly what I need right now! Today’s a new day. Thanks.

By: Corilee

Corilee — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:07:28 +0000

I watch Glenn Beck on tv and as he explains how we are losing our freedoms and becoming a Socialist country and that the Constitution is literally hanging by the slimmest of threads, it upsets me no end. I think of all kinds of threats to our wonderful, blessed, beautiful and free way of life.

Our children will live a very different life than we have. We have saddled them with an unimaginably high debt to pay. How will they ever do it? The worst depression ever is just starting.

I can only leave it in God’s capable hands

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:09:18 +0000

What a beautiful reminder, Stephanie. So much of this world is broken and the realization that we can’t fix all that is wrong with it can be shattering. But there is room for the healing you describe. We can’t fix the world, but we can fix ourselves.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:57 +0000

What a great suggestion. I have been having more frequent problems of not getting to sleep at night, worrying about things. Maybe this solution would work for me as well.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:23:20 +0000

I read a disturbing news story the other day and it totally made me sick to my stomach and put me in a bad mood. I can’t remember what snapped me out of it, but I’ll remember this for next time!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:55:05 +0000

I love that quote from Sis. Parkin. I really felt like I had grown-up and matured when I could look at my trials and find things to be thankful for. Careful reflection helped me to see that even in the midst of turmoil and overwhelming stress, the Lord had been manifesting his presence in my life–kind, thoughful friends; inspired priesthood blessings; scriptures that seemed to have been written just for me; and on some days, just the ability to get out of bed and face it all again. As I get some distance from the harder experiences of my life, I really do feel gratitude for them, not that I would wish to experience them all over again, but because of how I see that they have helped me to grow and become better. Stopping to count my blessings, whether times are good or bad, seems to be an instant mood lifter. I need to do it more often. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Kristina P.

Kristina P. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:35:52 +0000

I went through a period, several years ago, where I couldn’t read the news at all. It would send my anxiety through the roof, and I would think of every bad thing that could possibly happen to us.

I love this idea. It’s something I need to do more of.

By: TheQueen@TerrorsInTiaras

TheQueen@TerrorsInTiaras — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:59:31 +0000

Did you know I started a new medicine two days ago, have had six combined hours of sleep in the last 52 hours, have a migraine that just won’t stop, AND my babies are doing the whole “maturation program” at school today, and my little teenager has a quiz on STD’s today so I’m feeling a little bit like it’s me and my little girls against the world that seems out of focus and is making them grow up too fast? (And I also seem to be having a problem with run-on sentences.)

Because it sort of seems like you knew all that so you could remind me who is in charge and all that I have to be grateful for. Thanks.

(Deep cleansing breath.)