What do you think? Is gratitude another chore on your to-do list or is it something that blesses you? It might feel it takes more than you have but once we learn to count our blessings, it starts giving instead of taking. I’ve learned that gratitude blesses you. And when we learn this, we can’t live without it. First of all, it teaches us to pay attention to our lives. How else could we find things to be grateful for,…
Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning, writes Karl Barth. I think so, too. There is nothing bigger or better in life than receiving grace through faith in Jesus Christ! G.K. Charleston has said “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” If we take time to wonder God’s mysteries in our lives we start to see God’s handiwork all around us. We need to cultivate wonder because wonder leads…
It’s Melodic Monday! Here’s a song to encourage all the pilgrims especially on the spiritual dry spells of their journey: Gratitude by Nichole Nordeman. Our feelings come and go but God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! God is good – all the time! Let’s praise the Lord! Send some rain, would You send some rain?‘Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink againAnd the sun is high and we are sinking in the shadeWould You send a…
