I believe that everything in life is a gift

 

There are two types of gifts: immediately obvious gifts, and immediately un-obvious gifts (the things you’re complaining about or putting up with — either out loud or silently to yourself. I invented a word for these: gofts).

 

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How do you know it's not a gift?

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Consider the empowerment and openings that you’d experience if, whenever you encountered an un-obvious gift, you took it as an opportunity to discover and/or create it as an obvious gift. Consider the degree to which your life would change if you believed that everything could be a gift.

 

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Even if it doesn't look like a gift, stay open to the idea that it is or might be

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You cannot prove that everything in your life is a gift. You cannot prove that everything in your life is not a gift. However, if you begin to believe that everything in your life is a gift or could be made into a gift, your life will be magnificent.

 

 

An experiment

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Choose something in your life that currently doesn’t look like a gift. Notice the courage it takes to keep asking yourself the questions,

 

“How might this be a gift for me?”

“How might I create this as a gift for me?”

"How did this happen for me instead of to me?"

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“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”

—Sophocles

“What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise.”

—Kitty O’Neill Collins

“Out of every crisis comes the chance to be reborn.”

—Nina O’Neill