Being thankful

 

O God, rarely do I come to you in gratitude,

  often I approach you with my small and big problems.

O God, ignorant I have been always to your blessings,

   my focus has been on challenges and complications.

I fail to thank you for giving me a healthy body, mind and spirit,

  granted I take the nature you have created for peace and bliss.

I crib about not having enough of what I want,

  not even knowing if that would give me true happiness.

O God, I complaint of things I do not have,

  and in my prayers keep those material things.

I always think of taking more and more from you,

  rather than being selfless in giving.

I love to accumulate, I fear losing,

  I feel death is a distant destination.

I keep running behind the oasis of life,

  With no real purpose and without seeking direction.

O God, today I thank you for just being there,

  I seek your true love and nothing else.

I seek humility, I seek peace, I seek gratitude,

  I seek to love every creation of yours always.