This month I have been posting daily at Twitter and Facebook one thing I am grateful for. The list is varied; you will find anything from "being able to wear jeans to work" to "Thankful to be a child of the King of the Universe". I have had a lot of fun posting these things.
In my typical fashion, though, I decided that simply being grateful is not enough and that I should name this initiative of positive existence. I decided upon "A November to Remember" and then the phrase "Attitude of Gratitude" came to mind and I didn't know which would fit. After all, an idle mind is the devil's playground and I got so tied up in naming this activity rather than being grateful that I got mad as a wet hen and realized I was barking up the wrong tree altogether!
Feeling dumb as a stump, I was reminded by the Holy Spirit that the point of this exercise is to be grateful not to get tied up in the details of what to call the act of doing so. So, hope against hope, I scrapped the naming process and to back to the action of being grateful. Praise God! He reminded me that it ain't over til the fat lady sings and in the way only He can do, He gave me yet another second chance.
I'm going to get down to business and share the point directly with you: listing things I'm grateful for is not the same as living a life that demonstrates gratitude. And living a life of gratitude has one simple name: Christianity. It doesn't need for me to relabel it or rework it in my head.
My gratitude for today is this: grateful that I can live a life that is pleasing to my King. Stop the presses! I think I may be onto something here!
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