Comments on: If Violence,Tragedy Or Illness Strike, Will You Choose To Allow Gratitude Into Your Heart? https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/ Cathy Chester, MS Advocate shares decades of wisdom Sun, 30 May 2021 21:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Would I Still Be Me If I Wasn't Disabled? | An Empowered Spirit https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-23300 Wed, 21 May 2014 11:49:04 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-23300 […] If Violence,Tragedy Or Illness Strike, Will You Choose To Allow Gratitude Into Your Heart? […]

]]> By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21101 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:31:45 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21101 Katy,

I am so glad you found my blog, and that you find gratitude despite adversity. Hope and gratitude will give us something to always hang on to, and helps us to take good care of our physical and spiritual selves.

Thank you for leaving your lovely comments.

Best~
Cathy

]]> By: Katy Board https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21100 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 21:54:36 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21100 I've just found your Blog, via Lizzie of Considerings, and it gives me yet another thing to be grateful for 🙂
That there is this amazing community out there in the ether that, no matter where they are in the world, are connected by that act of gratitude is just so heart-warming for me 🙂
I loved the way you spoke of gratitude and, as a fellow sufferer, always try to find something to be grateful for every day 🙂

]]> By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21099 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:49:32 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21099 As I type this, Lisa, I am sitting on my back deck, facing the mountains in back of our house. Filled with trees and birds chirping in harmony. The sun is setting, the air is cool and neighborhood is quiet. I am meditating. You, my friend, are absolutely right!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and shedding some new light that meditation can also be living in the moment, exactly where you are. Carpe Diem!

Best to you always~
Cathy

]]> By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21098 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:47:04 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21098 It takes more times for some to adapt to their disability, Maritza. Some do it right away; others not for a long time. We are all different, and we process things differently. But having a disability does the one thing the same for everyone - it changes our lives forever. You can't change that. You can't even undo it. You only are left with two options - fighting it or living with it.

I hope you choose to live with it. It is a part of you, but it is not all of you. The sum total of you is also your spirit and soul and that, my friend, is what will keep you lifted through difficult times.

Try to read books that help you cope. Reach out to others. Join support groups. Talked to loved ones. Get your feelings out. Start a journal. Anything to help you come to terms with your disability, get a better grasp, and move on to living a better life of QUALITY.

After all, you deserve it!

Best to you always. Thank you so much for reaching out~
Cathy

]]> By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21097 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:41:46 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21097 You are quite welcome, Considerer. I love your lovely compliments, and am so glad you will share my post with others. Gratitude is meant to be spread around!

Thank you for leaving your thoughts here on my blog. I love hearing from you~
Cathy

]]> By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21096 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:40:13 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21096 You need to get back to THIS friend more, Sheryl! We need to schedule some girlfriend time.

I am so glad you are getting more into Column B than Column A. That is what life is all about - it's just too darn precious to spend time in Column A!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts~
Cathy

]]> By: Sheryl https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21095 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:50:09 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21095 Lovely pose, Cathy. It's so easy ( too easy) to get caught up in the everyday craziness of life and lose sight of what we have to be grateful for. We all need to slow down and get back in touch with that part of ourselves. Thanks for the reminder. I am full of column A but want to choose everything from column B all the time. Every day!

]]> By: Considerer https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21094 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:21:45 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21094 I've somehow managed to bring 7 co-hosts along with me for the ride. There's a gorgeous lifting of spirits and boosting of one anothers' moods which takes place. Community is growing in comment boxes, and it's changing people's attitudes quite significantly, or at least, helping them to be thankful in a more mindful manner.

I'm linking back to this post this weekend, because I think it sums up some of the spirit of what the hop's about. Thank you for writing it so beautifully.

]]> By: Maritza https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21093 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:36:51 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21093 Cathy, I always come to your blog to read your inspirational posts. I usually never leave a comment because I just don't know what to say.

What do you do when your gratitude is over shadowed by your disability? What can I do to embrace what my life is today? It's been more than five years and I still struggle accepting my limitations.

Even though I know I need to move on.

]]> By: Lisa Froman https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21092 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:38:47 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21092 Cathy, I am no expert meditator. So I would have little advice for you. But I suspect you meditate more than you think you do. Like when you stop for a minute and take a deep breath or two, or notice the sunset, or the pretty flock of birds overhead. Or those beautiful flowers you showed us once in your yard. I personally believe those are living moments of meditation. Or gratitude. Maybe it's all the same my friend.

]]> By: Cathy Chester https://anempoweredspirit.com/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21091 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:23:42 +0000 http://anempoweredspirit.clients.kidaweb.com/2013/08/13/if-violencetragedy-or-illness-strike-will-you-choose-to-allow-gratitude-into-your-heart/#comment-21091 What a marvelous idea! A week-long bloghop. Was it just yours, or do you have a group doing it? Either way it's helpful to keep writing about our blessings; they will see us through good times and bad. Bravo to you for doing this for yourself!

I am so glad to hear from you and learn about your thoughts. Thank you so much for letting me hear your voice.

Best always~
Cathy

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