Grateful Winner - A Spiritual Story

There are so many illustrations of being a grateful winner in this game of life we are all participating in.

Gratitude is mentioned in several spiritually enriching texts, signaling to each of us, the importance of staying in the vibration of gratitude.

Seeing ourselves as winners in this dice rolling game of living on this good earth, is a valuable piece to the puzzle we continually complete while here.

Bringing both of these single words and sentiments together, packs a pretty powerful punch.

It’s easy in life to be labeled a “loser” when we fail a driving test, or an educational system of remembrance for an exam. It’s easy to feel like a loser when a job doesn’t work out, or a legal system works against us. It’s too easy to fail in intimate relationship, or have parents, children, family or friends not choose to love us in the way we would deeply desire. These can all feel like such great big losses.

We choose how we accept, feel and move forward with any of our realities.

We also get to choose how we see ourselves, and in the way that we decide how we are going to show up.

Being a grateful winner doesn’t actually come with what we own, what status we climbed to in society, or how others feel about us.

Being a grateful winner is a “soul” journey we are all on.

Simply being chosen to enter this World, express and learn who we are at the depth of our essence, defines us, and allows us to view this life and our human form as the grateful recipient of the advantage to win our run at the races of the game of this life.

I met a man when I was providing comfort, counsel and care with hospice, many years ago, while in California. He had helped create a multi-million dollar company brand that every athlete knew, and most of them wore, publicly placing him and his team on the map. He lived in a beautiful home on a really blue lake, in a prestigious neighborhood.

From a society vantage point, he was a massive success. Of course, I met him while he was preparing for his last days on earth. This has a very humbling impact on someone.

His wife of many years, ran around for him, pushing her tears of sorrow away, every time I saw her. He tried to be light, jovial and mindful of her impending loss, while preparing for his own journey.

One day she had gone shopping and it was just him and I. He wanted to speak from his heart, sharing the life he’d lived and how precious this had been for him. He was sorry to leave it behind, sorry to let her stay while he traveled forward, and asked my advice about how to manage that.

I completely choked, as this was the toughest question I’d ever been asked.

Instead of answering him about how he would die, I asked him how much he had lived.

He reflected on all areas of his life, including the decision to not have children. He spoke freely, openly, sharing treasured moments. We laughed and cried together at his sharing. When I left, I hugged him, feeling as though I’d just had the honor to walk through a book, a movie, a true story of someone’s amazing life.

The next day he passed. He was ready. His story was told and someone new heard it. He felt complete in the circle of a grateful winner.

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