Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melodie Beattie)
Sometime ago, I was sharing with someone who at one time had been homeless. He told me of how often he would long for a sandwich. So he would hang out at fast food restaurants to collect the discarded ketchup packets. Then (if he was lucky that day) he would find a slice of bread and squeeze out the remaining ketchup from the assorted packets to make a ketchup sandwich.
He went on to tell me of the day that a gentleman noticed him and offered to take him to a near-by restaurant and buy him a hamburger. He told me that it was a time with a number of the hardest decisions he ever had to make. He said this is how it went down with his ordering:
1. Did I want a white or whole wheat bun?
2. Did I want a single burger or the deluxe double burger?
3. Did I want cheese on my burger?
4. Did I want my burger somewhat rare, medium, or well done?
5. Did I want onions on the burger? Raw or fried?
6. Did I want lettuce, tomato, and mayo on the burger?
7. Finally, did I want to have fries?
8. Oops – what size order of fries? Small, medium or large?
9. Then it was the decision of what to drink.
As a result of all this burger decisioning, it took him at least 15 minutes to place his order.
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