Thoughts...
Thankfulness: Feeling or expressing gratitude. Appreciation.
I have always made a practice of being thankful. Thanking the gentleman for holding the door. Thanking the banker at the drive through. Thanking all the nurses over and over during 5 deliveries. Being thankful is something I am more than willing to do, and I enjoy it. I strive to teach my children the benefits of gratefulness, and encourage them to practice it.
I realize that I may sound proud, or boastful, or something, but I just really feel very strongly about thankfulness. I am not sure if it is a reflex to my upbringing, or what, but manners were always important to me. I wonder if it has to do with the idea that the better manners I had, the more I got? People respond well to thankfulness. It could be that this was one way to make people happy. I am a people pleaser.... funny that both Ben and I are perpetual people pleasers. Hmmmmm.
Anyway, here I am doing a Bible Study on gratitude. I was thinking to myself. "I am grateful in all situations. I am a very thankful person. But am I? I tend to be thankful to people. Am I grateful to GOD? That is the question? Do I really give thanks to Him as I should? Am I truly grateful in my life for the things Christ has done, and do I give Him the thanks for that? Every circumstance, every trial, every worry, needs to be followed with gratefulness. Gratefulness to a Father who deserves my gratitude. Thank you Lord.
I have always made a practice of being thankful. Thanking the gentleman for holding the door. Thanking the banker at the drive through. Thanking all the nurses over and over during 5 deliveries. Being thankful is something I am more than willing to do, and I enjoy it. I strive to teach my children the benefits of gratefulness, and encourage them to practice it.
I realize that I may sound proud, or boastful, or something, but I just really feel very strongly about thankfulness. I am not sure if it is a reflex to my upbringing, or what, but manners were always important to me. I wonder if it has to do with the idea that the better manners I had, the more I got? People respond well to thankfulness. It could be that this was one way to make people happy. I am a people pleaser.... funny that both Ben and I are perpetual people pleasers. Hmmmmm.
Anyway, here I am doing a Bible Study on gratitude. I was thinking to myself. "I am grateful in all situations. I am a very thankful person. But am I? I tend to be thankful to people. Am I grateful to GOD? That is the question? Do I really give thanks to Him as I should? Am I truly grateful in my life for the things Christ has done, and do I give Him the thanks for that? Every circumstance, every trial, every worry, needs to be followed with gratefulness. Gratefulness to a Father who deserves my gratitude. Thank you Lord.
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