It is always important to be grateful in the light, to be grateful in the blessing when you receive what you wanted.

But the real struggle and the real power is in the darkness to have such a trust in the mercy and kindness of the creator that

even in the darkness, my heart is filled with gratitude.

Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry. We are going to do Scooby Snack Edition, even though it's not summer, because we want to have you be hungry for your Thanksgiving feast. So we're going to fill you with... Yes, well, for our listeners in America. Deep wisdom, but so you still have some room in your belly. Our listeners in America... Was that a real laugh? That didn't look really laugh. No, it was a real life. I don't think I would do a fake laugh on the podcast. Like real life maybe at times. Not with me. Not with you. So you're going to say our friends in America? No, for our friends in America, it's Thanksgiving. So we are assuming you are very much getting ready for either your friends giving or your Thanksgiving or your Thanksgiving with your family.

And we thought it was important to give a little bit of consciousness around giving thanks and especially.

Well, gratitude, but we don't want to explore gratitude in the soft kind of polite way that usually people do once a year around Thanksgiving.

No, I don't want to be soft or polite.

What does interest me is to talk about gratitude as defiance and rebellion,

words you don't often put together.

And I see that you are a little confuzzled.

So the back story, I guess, to that thought I was asked to contribute an out of the box kind of way of thinking about gratitude. So it kind of forced me to look at it at a different angle. Because I wouldn't have gotten there naturally either. But it's a world that we live in that thrives on keeping us dissatisfied if you think about it,

because that's how you sell the next thing.

Like, you don't want that anymore.

You want this.

You had that, but that's not that to do this, this, that.

Out with the old, in with the new.

But gratitude is actually a radical act because it's being able to kind of pause and look at things from a different angle.

So I want to break it down to four or five different ways.

We'll be brief because again, it's a Scooby Snack edition.

So the first is gratitude as defiance.

And there's a caubalistic idea that every time we focus on lack on what we don't have,

it's like we are in this echo chamber of not enough.

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