The word recalibrate caught my attention the other day. “To make small changes to an instrument so that it measures accurately.” Sounds like it could be a mindful step to having a grateful heart. Recalibrate by looking clearly at our blessings and not just rushing over them in a gray fuzzy lump. To see them more clearly, then we can measure them more accurately.

Or if we need something a little stronger, how about a percussive recalibration? That’s the act of dropping or kicking something to make it work. Years ago I was leading a workshop out of town and I arranged for a local company to deliver a TV/monitor the day before the workshop. I arrived early to check out the equipment and it didn’t work. I called the company and the gentleman who was helping me shared that what they would usually do is to lift the TV off the ground about two inches and then drop it. Often that little jolt is enough to make it start working again. Who knew? But we agreed that I wouldn’t do that. Instead, he delivered a replacement instead.  

But it does make me laugh to think about how a percussive recalibration is sometimes just what we need. Just a nudge to slightly change our perspective, our thought pattern. Just a little kick to get us going, eh?