Say “Yes” to All of Life

Gratitude isn’t only about giving thanks for what’s good. It’s also about choosing to bless what is, regardless of whether it feels good or looks right. At the Last Supper, Jesus gives thanks while sitting at a table shadowed by betrayal and loss. His gratitude doesn’t deny the painful parts — it transforms them.

When we give thanks in an experience, even in one we can’t be thankful for, we open to a deeper dimension of wholeness — not the kind that fixes everything, but the kind that includes everything. Every joy and sorrow, every ending and beginning, becomes part of a greater unfolding. Gratitude, then, is awakening to the divine in all that is — a definitive “yes” to life’s fullness, right here, right now.