2 Chronicles 20:26 · World English Bible
On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.
After the great deliverance, the people did not rush ahead to the next thing. They stopped in the valley and gave thanks, and in that pause something in them opened.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
After the great deliverance, the people did not rush ahead to the next thing. They stopped in the valley and gave thanks, and in that pause something in them opened. Gratitude is not merely good manners toward life. It is a doorway into presence, a way the mind falls silent and you feel your connection to the source of all that is.
This is why the place was given a name and remembered. When you truly bless what has been given, you stop long enough to be fully here, and that stillness leaves a mark. The moment of thanks becomes a place you can return to, because it is where you touched the aliveness of now.
Ego v. Being lens
What good thing did you walk straight past today without stopping?
Begin by taking account of what is already given rather than what is still wanted, and the restless reaching quiets. Gratitude puts you back inside your own life.
Before eating, the bowl is held in both hands and the meal is received rather than grabbed. The pause before is the whole practice.
Thanks is not a payment, it is a door. Saying it slowly opens you to the aliveness that was pouring in all along.
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Ego v. Being