Thankful

I am ashamed to admit that I haven't been as thankful as I should be. Not long ago I could be heard in the car, or on the phone with my mom, saying,"thank you Jesus!" for whatever blessing we had been given. I just caught on that I haven't been doing that, and guess what?...I've been grumpy, argumentative, and frustrated! If you think they aren't related...they are!

I read a book once; a biography of a woman named Cori Ten Boom. She was Jewish, and she and her sister never married. They were taken to a concentration camp in WW2, and they were the Christian leaders in the camp for the women. They held bible studies, with a contraband bible, tended the sick with a bottle of medicine that never ran dry the whole time they were in there. And one thing that stuck with me was that she said," THANK GOD FOR THE FLEAS". She was thankful for a flea infested room, where she and the rest of the women stayed, because it kept the guards from coming in unless the HAD to. This gave her and her sister a chance to talk to the women freely about God.

I took this on as my "moto", and I have tried to be thankful in spite of the circumstances. My husband has been my partner in this endeavor, and he said he had noticed that we hadn't been as thankful.

So, let's all try this..,"THANK YOU FOR..." Fill in the blank, do it often, do it for things that you think aren't worthy of thanks...like getting a parking spot close to the building...Do it every day!

Thank you husband, kids, everyone. See how this changes your own attitude.