Whole

“Entitled people are never happy.” Dr. Amen brain course

By: Gabriela Yareliz

We live in a “blame-y” culture (borrowed the term from Emma Grede). It’s someone around us who is to blame or the government. We complain about things for precious hours we won’t get back. We become overly absorbed in pointing and feeling cheated when we have so much, and so much of the rest is in our hands. Regardless of circumstance, we are responsible for our lives.

Today, the reminder is two-fold: we must take responsibility for everything in our control (and it’s more than we think); and we must approach life with gratitude and not entitled.

I loved this thought from Erwin McManus:

“When you’re ungrateful, you’re actually postured toward the world as, the world owes me something.

When you’re grateful, you’re actually postured as, l owe the world something.

And so it’s really just a differential between being a taker and being a giver.

Gratitude is the only internal ingredient that makes you whole.

No matter how much help you get, no matter how much of the Bible you read, no matter how much church you go to, or synagogue, or whatever it may be, you will never be whole if you’re ungrateful.”

Let’s be whole.