dailydatewithgod

We tend to view things as one or the other.  It is either night or day, up or down, and good or bad.  Sometimes referred to as black and white thinking it is a result of our inclination to categorize things.  It is so we can make sense of the world which is helpful.  If everything was chaotic and lacked meaning we would most likely feel out of touch with reality.  When it comes to the idea of advantages we often take the same either or approach. We either want the advantage in a situation or we do not.  We see others who have advantages that we do not and wish we were them. Our minds do this funny thing where we perceive others as having more of an advantage than ourselves.  In fact, we are often blinded to the advantages we do have because most of them we take for granted.  We bemoan the people we perceive as always having the upper hand or the golden touch.  As if they are somehow more lucky than we are.  We believe they do not even realize all the advantages they have and take them for granted.  But depending on what angle we are looking from someone always has an advantage.  Do we always recognize the ones we have?  I lose sight of them all the time.  I walked from the train to my office this morning fully clothed with a smile on my face. In that time I passed a man who was wearing tattered clothing, missing teeth, limping, who I do not think has a place to live and probably does not have any money to take the train.  It isn’t until writing this that I realized all the advantages I have compared to him.  I take action in my life to facilitate those advantages and some of them show up on my gratitude list at the end of the day but I do not usually seem them as an advantage.  It has started me wondering how many more advantages I have that I am not paying attention to.  In fact, how many advantages do I have that I do not even see as an advantage?  How many more things can I be grateful for that I currently take for granted?  I can hear the song of my heart start to hum as my eyes are opened to all the blessings in my life I have been blind to up until this point.