You think gratitude is soft.
That is exactly why you keep losing.
Soft is a greeting card. Soft is a list you scribble when you are trying to feel better about a life you do not recognize anymore. That is not what this is.
This is what a man picks up when he has run out of options.
When the house goes quiet. When the call comes. When you wake at three in the morning and cannot remember the year you stopped being alive and started just being useful.
There is a reason God let you keep the scars.
Inside, you will find out what that reason is. And what He built you to do with it.
It will not make your past perfect.
It will make it dangerous.
There is always, always, always something to be grateful for.
Pick up the weapon.