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MAKING LIFE CHANGES WITH GRATITUDE

ratitude can help you bounce back from hard times. In this
chapter, we will be looking at how very difficult and trying times

Gin one’s life can be upturned with an act of gratitude.

Betty was a widow to whom all that was left to have was the only

daughter whom she had from her late husband. All her life, she had
lived a life of kindness. It would be impossible to take a record of the

number of people whom she had helped. On one fateful hot afternoon,
her little girl had lost consciousness in the small hut where they lived.

Betty meanwhile was out to sell some fruits, as that was the only way to
keep body and soul together. It would be about six hours later before she

would return to her girl. Upon her return, she met the horrible situation
waiting for her there in the hut. Back and forth in the lonely hut, there

was no one to call for help. But rather than rescind to negativity, Betty,
there in the tearful state, gave thanks to God for having all the while

kept her girl alive for that long. Her little girl had five years earlier