Generally, gratitude is expressed for blessings received, for deliverance from difficulties, and for tasks successfully completed. There is another dimension, however, to gratitude, an aspect that initiates a joyful, constructive, helpful attitude and that leads to healing. It is not dependent on personalities, possessions, or one's position.
This kind of gratitude helps you and me to feel vibrantly alive, to experience a heart full of genuine affection for our fellowman, and lifts us to a higher sphere of thought. It floods our being with love, and we travel on a pathway of happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction. Such gratitude has a spiritual basis. It's gratitude for the very reality of existence. It expresses a pure love for God and His boundless goodness, and for the goodness of all that He has created.
Feeling grateful in this way is natural because man is God's image and likeness, reflecting God's self-containment and completeness. Man bears witness to God's satisfaction with His own work.
