A Gratitude Visit!
"Gratitude should not be an occassional incident but a continuous attitude." Meaning to say that we should utter words of thanks and we should be counting our blessings everyday of our lives, contineously. Whatever we do, wherever we are and whatever happens we should always consider this and be grateful for what the Lord has done for us. As we all know that, He is the source of all the blessings that everyone enjoys, even sufferings.
Counting our blessings promotes physical health, according to a study by some US doctors. And volunteers who kept weekly gratitude journals reported lesser aches and pains than those who recorded daily hassles or neutral events.
A "gratitude visit" was developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman to promote strong emotional health. He tells people to think of someone who has made an important difference in thier lives. He asked them to write a story of how that person has helped them, and then to visit that person and read the story aloud. Tests show that a year later the people who had done so were happier and reported fewer episodes of depression. Even more important, think of what it must have been done for those who were thanked.
Personally, I have got important incidents recorded with people in my life that I should always be grateful:
- My family …and relatives in Lagundi and Montalban have been always supportive to me all the way in good and bad times.
- Montalban Church of Christ … who has always been the source of my spiritual strenght in time of my life’s success and failures and while I was struggling to apply here in UK due to financial crisis.
- My former colleagues at East Avenue Medical Center … whom I considered my second family since I worked at the Med. Social Service for almost 26 yrs.
- My best friend Linda Masilungan … who accepted Jesus Christ as her own personal saviour and redeemer with my persistent encouragement and God’s will.
- UBU Northern Lifecare LTD (Vesper Road) … my place of work since I came here in UK on Oct. 8, 2003.
- Church of Christ in London as well as my cousin (June’s family) and sister in-law (Mana Elsie) who have been accomodative to me and Kim whenever we decided to go for a holiday or a weekend trip.
- Last but not the least I am truly grateful to our Lord Jesus Christ because here in England my daughter Kim and I have found a couple friend in the name of Gerard and Hermie … who has been basically nice and considerate to us, since this couple encouraged us to share the house with them where we comportably lived now. (Including our friend Jennelyn Carbonell).
