10 DAYS OF GRATITUDE – Day 1
Recollections of sitting at a desk, seeing a journal immediate written on a chalkboard, overhead, after which whiteboard, so vividly fills my thoughts. Pulling open the cardboard cowl a brand new journal, seeing a clean, recent, white piece of paper lay earlier than me, ready to be full of desires, ideas, prospects, and convictions. Unusually I eagerly anticipated journaling days. And, effectively, I suppose I nonetheless get those self same emotions of anticipation and pleasure once I open up WordPress and click on “Add New Submit”. A clean slate earlier than me.
I’m an early Christmas decorator. Research have proven that those that adorn early are literally happier! There’s something magical a few twinkling mild, music within the background, heat from a hearth, you identify it. Now this additionally means I adorn earlier than Thanksgiving, however truthfully, it makes me that rather more looking forward to Thanksgiving as a result of I’m already beginning to consider what I’m grateful for once I adorn. Christmas is the final word reward we may’ve been given – the start of our Savior!
So what do clean journals and adorning for Christmas have in widespread? A chance for GRATITUDE. It’s straightforward to ask somebody “what are you grateful for…” and we are able to all the time consider the standard “my household, my home, my associates, and many others.” And YES! What GIFTS! However generally I feel it’s price whereas getting out a pocket book, opening as much as a recent web page, and journaling about ONE factor.
Why simply ONE? It helps us discover issues that perhaps we didn’t take into consideration or take TIME to note earlier than. It makes us go that a lot deeper. We begin to search for issues that deliver easy pleasure. Unexplainable pleasure. A thankfulness that perhaps solely you uniquely really feel.
With all my lights hung, with music enjoying within the background, with my “journal” freshly opened earlier than me, I wish to share ONE query so that you can take into account every day as we close to Thanksgiving. I problem you to assume outdoors the field with these. To go deeper. Perhaps this ONE query will trigger you to have quite a few solutions, and that’s okay too! I already see myself in that boat. However I problem you to go searching. Ask God to point out you one thing you could not have seen earlier than. Open up that journal, and journal away.
God has given us greater than we may ever deserve. Together with His very personal SON, in order that we might have life. As we take into consideration Thanksgiving, might we take into account how His reward to us, might spur us on to show round and thank HIM for all of the items He has given us.
So I problem you to reply the query both right here by commenting under, writing it down in your personal particular place, however then converse it to God. He needs to know. And what? He cares. He LOVES giving items and what higher factor may we do, than thank the Giver of these items?
DAY 1…
I really like that I stay within the city that Dan and I dreamed of residing in years in the past.
We had been residing in a unique space on the time and had been heading again dwelling. Whereas driving down one of many city’s foremost streets, I vividly keep in mind Dan saying, “I may stay right here sometime…”
And wouldn’t , that’s precisely the place Dan and I live now. Within the city simply south of the place I grew up, on a quiet avenue in a city that’s full of small city feels, Christmas lights year-round, shops and eating places lining the primary avenue, distinctive properties at each flip, many locations inside strolling distance and every little thing else we want inside driving distance. Together with strong medical developments.
God certainly has given us “the needs of our hearts!”
How about you? Please remark under!
