Gratefulness can be humbling. How might this statement resonate with me?

The statement “Gratefulness can be humbling” resonates with me in this way. We are all wounded. We are all broken. Leonard Cohen put it this way: “There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” It is also how the light gets out. Sometimes my brokenness is all I have to offer and for the gift to see this and accept it, I am grateful. My failures, my limitations, have often been my greatest teachers. The Indian philosopher J Krishnamurti once said something like (paraphrase)”Today I held a precious jewel, it reflected everything that I needed to see; it was fear.” That quote shared with me many years ago was very humbling. It offered me a “blinding gift of the obvious.” Fear of “not being enough” plagues most of us. It can rob us of the ability to see what is good right now, right here. Gratefulness reminds us that life itself is a gift. It releases, allows, acknowledges a powerful energy and empowers us to be its instrument in the world. Laughing or crying then becomes fruitful. I share a poem, “Clear Seeing,” I wrote many years ago.

CLEAR SEEING

WE ARE PILGRIMS ON THE JOURNEY.
WE SEARCH BUT ALL PATHS LEAD NO WHERE.
WHY? BECAUSE, WE NEVER LEFT THE GARDEN.
WE JUST THINK WE DID.

AND WHAT WE THINK MANIFESTS.
AND WHAT MANIFESTS BECOMES OUR REALITY —
A REALITY THAT DENIES OUR BIRTHRIGHT
AND IMPRISONS OUR VERY SOUL.

SO LET US RE-MEMBER THE GARDEN.
GATHER BENEATH THE TREE OF LIFE.
ROOT OURSELVES IN ITS AGELESS WISDOM
AND BECOME WHAT WE WERE MEANT TO BE.

WHOLE, HOLY, ONE WITH NATURE,
FATHER, MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER, FRIEND,
SUMMER, WINTER, SPRING, AND FALL,
BEING GRATEFUL FOR IT ALL