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The really challenging seasons are those when you know nothing is wrong, but nothing feels right.
Gavin Ortlund writes about practising intentional gratitude as a pathway to restoring balance and experiencing joy.

There are things we have, and things we lack. Blessings and disappointments. And our default seems to be for the bad things, the disappointments, to get all of our focus. So we have to be intentional to focus on the blessings.
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I’d been feeling pretty low in the season of life we were in, so I started giving this idea a try: practicing intentional gratitude as a pathway to joy.
I thought it would make a small difference: maybe a 2-5% bump in my emotional well-being on any given day.
Instead, I’d put it closer to 30-40%. Gratitude is powerful. Its easy to underestimate.

Read the whole post at Soliloquium.