In its perpetual form, grateful is a becoming. It is reflected in its momentary counterpart by a remembrance or acknowledgement to the thanks offered for a thing received. To become immortally thankful requires a power source other than the mortal box checking of human ritual. True grace in gratitude is living inseparable from the source of blessing. Like happiness everything encountered in man’s pursuit is reflection of that which IS immortal, everlasting, pure and unresolved. To be filled with Joy is to acknowledge in existence those things which remain beyond us, outside time that make us continuous in our reflection of God.

I am grateful for you. It requires nothing of you, demands no changes, no masks, no thespian attempts at appearing closer to a litany or list of requirements to receive attention or adoration. Akin to appreciating a burr or gadfly under ones posterior, prompting, agitating, demanding transformation, gratefulness acknowledges the potency and promise of living, not simply the blessing bestowed in comfort, prestige or power. What makes mortality fleeting but the time aspect associated with its conduct? It is time a construct outside ourselves that controls, permeates and commands certain performance, certain reflection upon the limits of temporary existence. In treating time as enemy we are defining our position in gratitude as temporal or everlasting.

When I show, demonstrate or emit a feeling and evidence of gratitude I live in communion with those things around me as necessary to a schema of which I am only partially privy. Appreciation and thankfulness of life requires that I meet it not in projection upon it rather conversely in its expectations of the man I have been created to become. I may clumsily clomp through life as trogladyte or troll or I may realize the complex relationship to all things as cast of grand demonstration of God’s infinite power to create and orchestrate every possible outcome to converge on the one of His Choosing. To admit my role in the temporary is to acknowledge my possible inclusion in the eternal. Without gratitude in this recognition I am destined to remain a mortal player in this dimensional cinema.

AM I or I AM is communitive. In declaring my inclusion in the Master’s outcomes I find the ticket to that showing. Viewing this breath of life as itself that for which to be continually prayerful. Gratitude is not a choice but a logical declaration of maturity. Realizing that there is no perpetual system without a thought which perceived that miraculous venture is the spark and kindling of Wisdom’s first arrival. We are the product of a thought and then the merciless will to launch its birth in a reality completely dependent upon the mind which first perceived in possibility. Acknowledging that mind and our union within it is the same as taking my next breath. We are inseparable for we are.

May this day never end in its capacity to demonstrate you inclusion in everlasting. May God’s Joy be your eternal Strength and may you begin to become that which surpasses the limiting hands of time. May its ticking become a cadence and the music of your casting in Life without end. In Jesus’ Name before Alpha and beyond Omega.