Dovid Lowy- "Meetings" Gratitude Attitude Part 2

hi devin lowe here and welcome back to another episode of meetings where we discuss torah topics to help us grow last week we started with a brand new topic the topic of gratitude and we discussed that gratitude begins by developing an attitude an attitude and an awareness for all the good that we receive in our lives i was just thinking of an amazing example of this an exercise really that was given by a great rabbi by the name of revigder miller who if you haven't heard his name before he is synonymous with this topic that we're talking about he preached and lived gratitude in every way he would tell the students try the following daily exercise you know before you take that first bite of your breakfast in the morning look down at your plate and think about all the people that were involved in the production of this food from a to z until it got to your plate so if it's a piece of bread the field that it was grown on the people that worked on the field the machinery that was used to produce it go so far as the the people the the companies that developed all those machineries to mass produce so much food the truck drivers that had to deliver the food from point a to point b to the manufacturers that made it to the the packaging that it was put into to the bowl or the plate and how that was made to the spoon or whatever it is there's so many people he says stop and think about it there's maybe hundreds possibly thousands of people that were involved in producing your breakfast in the morning what an amazing and inspiring thought that you are the beneficiary of hundreds or maybe thousands of people's work wow isn't that something to be appreciative of so you might think to yourself come on did they really do that for me do they even know my name they're just doing their daily job they're waking up and doing what they do to make money they don't care about me it doesn't matter that's what we said appreciation means were you the recipient of good did you receive something that you enjoyed stop and appreciate it it's about you and yourself it's about you realizing all the blessings and all the good that's in your life and that's something good i mean stop and think for just one second if any of those things went wrong if the trucks didn't deliver the ingredients if the crop was a bad crop that year you wouldn't have the same breakfast would you so why wait till something bad happens where you don't have it why does it have to be that only the sick appreciate health that the hungry could appreciate what food is that the lonely could appreciate what company is why do we have to wait till we don't have something to realize how good it is when we do have something and that's today's lesson let's stop and try to appreciate how we have so much blessing in our life let's not wait till we don't have something to appreciate it i thank you again for joining me and i look forward to next week see you then you