Congratulations on making it to day 2! Wasn’t yesterday so hard? Today, Instead of writing one word, we’re going to make it into a sentence. Write 1 sentence of gratitude beginning with “I am blessed because.” The beginning of this sentence is very important. “I am blessed” has a very different feel than “I am thankful for.”
Lets have a little grammar-geek talk here. We’re dealing with subjects and objects. Subjects are the persons, places, things, or ideas that are DOING the action:
I am, you did, it was, etc.
Objects are the persons, places, things or ideas that are RECEIVING the action:
to him, for her, from there,
As natural human beings, we tend to look at everything from the subject perspective. We put ourselves in the drivers chair. I am, I had, I made, etc. And that makes sense, It’s a rather healthy place to be… Most of the time. But it’s also exhausting, pressure-laden, and self-centered; the opposite of what we want to gain from this challenge. That is the main difference in
I am thankful for…
(We’re in the driver’s seat. We’re creating the action. We’re thinking of Ourselves and what we are doing), and
I am blessed because…
(We are receiving the action here. We are thinking about some outside force acting upon ourselves.It’s passive. It’s a way for us to step out of the driver’s seat and let someone else lead).
Today, lets take a break from blazing our trail, and just let our blessings happen to us. Oh, and write them down, of course.
