Giving thanks unlocks the gate we have closed to God’s presence. It is like a secret password that is so simple and obvious we overlooked it.
The principle is that gratitude opens into presence. So as we lift our hearts in gratitude we become more aware of God’s presence and we enter his realm.
Gratitute is like putting on glasses to see through the material and the circumstantial into the eternal. To see past the gift into the presense of the giver.
And then all things become like glass, transparent and open, and we recognize that we are home.