Holidays are time-sensitive opportunities to sit with our family, friend or neighbor and draw out treasure.
Tag: thanksgiving
Squanto somehow managed to love his enemy despite his own misery.
The world has enough naysayers. What we need is thanks-givers.
“Today, if only you would heard His voice, “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.” (Psalm 95:7b-9…
What if we spent the entire month of November in actual gratitude? If we refused to run full-speed toward Decembers festivities? If we intentionally allowed the infringing cold and darkness to slow our soul a bit and warm our hearts by giving thanks?
Dissatisfaction is the universal lens fitted for humanity at the fall. Awakening to the less conspicuous gifts of everyday life requires rote repetition. We transform our negativity bias to a to a gratitude bias one thought at a time, intentionally searching out the best and celebrating it’s improbable presence in our fallen world.
We learn from the lepers that gratitude is uncommon. Stopping to say ‘thank you’ will set apart from the crowd.