I Thank Therefore I Am: Gratefulness As Healing

Revelations come in many varieties. Mine arrived during a morning meditation. After a formal recitation of a morning prayer-“I thank You for Your gift of being,” I was suddenly gripped by a torrent of uncontrollable sobbing. During these tearful moments I experienced a penetrating awareness of how grateful I was, repeating, over and over: ”Thank You. Thank You.” This text of my heart served as the impetus to examine the liturgy of Judaism and discover the centrality of gratefulness in one’s spiritual life. This book is my exegesis of that moment by which I examine the many dimensions of gratefulness and demonstrate its transformative power as a path of loving interaction among individuals and groups.