[Welcome to the blog! This is the non-list area of We Love Gratitude that lets me dive deeper into writing about gratitude and helping you go deeper with your practice. -Belle]

I’m reading Digital Warriorship by Gwen Bell and came across this quote:

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – Og Mandino

What an incredible shift this creates internally. By itself, gratitude can help us see people in a more loving light, appreciate them for who they are, and even embrace the moments they hurt us by being grateful for the fruits of that moment.

But how often, though I am grateful, do I still harbor little resentments and unforgiveness towards people who have hurt me? Would it change my mind to look at them as though they’d die tonight?

My practice this week is to find out.

As I walk through this week, I’ll be conscious of the shift (if any?) that happens. It just may be the “shortcut to forgiveness”- a way to quickly and easily let go of my unfulfilled expectations of reality and embrace what already is.