When I heard that the owner of the cottage needed to come home a week early, I could have been annoyed, or even worse, angry, resentful… you name it. Yes, I could have been, because I have often have those feelings. But, thanks to God’s grace, I was free this time of all that kind of angst. Instead I watched my final sunrise in gratitude. Gratitude for the time I had there, for the home I will return to, for my health… the list went on and on. Finally I was grateful that I was grateful. I could have forgotten about gratitude altogether; I do that sometimes.
Gratitude is something we need to practice all the time, for the little things and for the big things. Most of the Epistles start and end with gratitude. The psalmists always included a line or two of gratitude. Gratitude was the core of my mom’s faith. Maybe writing about her is another one of God’s ways of reminded me.
Gratitude is something we need to practice all the time, for the little things and for the big things. Most of the Epistles start and end with gratitude. The psalmists always included a line or two of gratitude. Gratitude was the core of my mom’s faith. Maybe writing about her is another one of God’s ways of reminded me.
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