{"id":21682,"date":"2024-11-13T00:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T07:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=21682"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:09:12","slug":"i-choose-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/i-choose-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"I Choose Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>BY DOVE<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I have come to know that the thoughts I think create the reality I experience. The thoughts have an emotional component that has a vibration and then the frequency I hold determines the energy I attract into my world.\u00a0I love my country, I love my home, I love the energy of riding my bike and cooking good food.\u00a0I love to sew, knit and crochet when I am taking a break from activities.\u00a0I am blessed in all ways. My family is a blessing in all ways. These are the thoughts I focus on during my day. I check with neighbors who are alone to make sure they are okay.\u00a0I catch myself when I am watching TV to not internalize the rhetoric being presented.\u00a0I look upon it as entertainment, not my truth.\u00a0My truth can only come from my heart. I do not choose to use my energy to promote possible situations that might happen.\u00a0Again, where your focus goes, energy flows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">We have just had an election that was controversial, to say the least, and you may or may not be happy with the outcome.\u00a0Rather than project negative scenarios, allow hope for positive change, change for the people and planet that is productive.\u00a0I don\u2019t know about you, but I am so done with controversy, war, lack and lying.\u00a0Almost all of the media promotes an agenda, not truth, so let us take responsibility for the energy we put forth.\u00a0If we all choose to seek the best for all concerned, rather than project the fear of what might happen that the fear-mongers generate.\u00a0Choose gratitude for the air, the water, the sun, your relationships, even if they have challenging moments.\u00a0Give amazing grace to the beauty of the animals that come to your door. The bunnies, chipmunks, squirrels, the magnificent elk that grace my backyard, the gentle deer all fill me with gratitude for all life.\u00a0Let us drop the focus of negativity and step into the energy of gratitude for all that is and give the energy a chance to shift in a direction that benefits us all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">We are at choice: do we live in the past or do we allow a whole new future to expand? Don\u2019t trap someone into the same old role that has been played.\u00a0Generate thoughts that can bring great value to your life.\u00a0This is my focus.\u00a0Love my life, love my environment.\u00a0Contribute in whatever way I can to the good of all. Move out of ego and become your higher self. If we all choose a new path, that is what we will create.\u00a0Energy is always moving. What are you going to add to the mix\u2014gratitude, trust, joy, anticipation or fear and lack?\u00a0The choice is yours.\u00a0I choose gratitude.\u00a0Blessings, Dove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY DOVE I have come to know that the thoughts I think create the reality I experience. The thoughts have an emotional component that has a vibration and then the frequency I hold determines the energy I attract into my world.\u00a0I love my country, I love my home, I love the energy of riding my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commentary","8":"category-inspirations-from-my-heart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21684,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions\/21684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}