Christian Devotional: Gratitude Unlocks The Fullness Of Life

This devotional reflects on how gratitude is part of recovering from co-dependence and self-love deficiency. The quote and book from Melody Beattie are meant to inspire persons who grew up in addicted, neglectful or abusive families to continue their recovery journey and use gratitude as a spiritual resource along the way.

Transcript

Quote by Melody Beattie,

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough and more.

It turns denial into acceptance,

Chaos to order,

Confusion to clarity.

It can turn a meal into a feast,

A house into a home,

A stranger into a friend.

Meditation.

Melody Beattie is the author of Codependent No More,

How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself.

She uses her own story to help those who grew up in families where addiction or abuse were part of the daily experience.

Her recovery inspired thousands of others.

Her descriptive and non-judgmental language educated many and normalized the consequences of having grown up in abusive,

Neglectful or addicted family systems.

Her liberating example and message is that when codependent persons recover and let go of trying to control their environment,

They can be freed from their attachment to addicted and abusive persons and systems.

Gratitude becomes one of the spiritual resources of surrendering control and fear.

Relating with gratitude to our higher power,

Who wants to save us from ourselves,

From abuse,

Addiction,

We find freedom and the power to transform our life patterns.

I want to say a prayer.

Healing God,

When I come to you,

Depleted from the patterns in which I find myself stuck,

You want to open up new possibilities.

You give me guides,

Role models and teachers who point me in new directions.

Help me to embrace gratitude as the means of breaking out of my relationship cycles of hatred,

Abuse and addiction.

You want to give me resources I never had available.

You teach me new ways of relating and new ways of seeing and drawing boundaries.

You teach me gratitude and self-respect and self-love.

You are the source of all healing and I am grateful.

Amen.

The Bible quote is from Isaiah 12,

Verse 3,

Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Have a wonderful day.