Short story: Being grateful never came easy to John, until he was greatfull of love

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Aaron Greatfull, had died recently, and his son, John, was now visiting his grave. John looked down at his father's headstone, and read his name, "Aaron Greatfull", yes, a mix of an old fashioned name, with a surname which depicted the character of his late father too. His father was indeed always grateful. John had not ever thought about that before. He had just taken his father largely just for granted. Young John, was not like his father though, and he was never grateful for most anything at all, which is probably why he never saw before the connection between his father's attitude of gratefulness, and his actual surname, "Greatfull". Then John, still quietly contemplating over the life of his father, sort of heard a whisper, coming to him, through the breeze, blowing gently past him, and then, he heard these words: "To be grateful, you must be greatfull of love, being greatly full of love brings you to being grateful." "Your father loved, and was greatfull, as he was always full of love. To be great, we need to be grateful for the chance given to us here, by God, to love." John, after that, tried to see all from the eyes of love, rather than him seeing things from a platform of what he thought that he could get out of something to personally benefit only himself. The secret to love is gratefulness. Be grateful of love. We cannot buy gratefulness, but when we live from it, we increase immensely the value of our life, both to ourselves, and to all others around us too. John never did recognise whose voice that was that spoke to him that day, but he was sure grateful to hear it, and from then on in, in his life, he lived up to his surname of "Greatfull" too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Be grateful for life now, before you end up dead, later!