Life is like a bowl of Strawberries
Let’s picture luscious fresh strawberries in a beautiful crystal glass bowl.
What do you see?
I see about fifty strawberries with green stems. Some are perfect, and some have leaves that are wrinkled or missing.
I see strawberries that are large and some that are smaller.
Then, I bend down and take a whiff and smell that heavenly strawberry aroma that dances in the air and into my nose.
In every bowl…
Every once in a while, a small, almost rotten strawberry gets mixed up in the bunch.
Just like our lives
Some lives have more rotten strawberries than others.
But what if we were to be grateful for all the strawberries, no matter their condition?
You may ask, how can I be thankful for the rotten strawberry?
You have a choice to make.
You can eat it and maybe get sick.
You can throw it out.
Or you can toss it out the door for insects to have a feast.
What do you see when you see a bowl of strawberries?
What would life be like without a few of these rotten ones?
Could they actually serve a purpose?
And, how would you define the ups and downs in life?
In Part 2, we will define gratitude and dig a bit deeper.
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