Thank You

Posted by bakerboy on May 4, 2010 | 2 comments

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.  It will change your life mightily.  ~Gerald Good

“Thank you.” Isn’t it amazing how two such little words can greatly affect how you feel in any given situation? We live in such a world where honest gratitude is becoming a very rare thing, indeed.  It seems as though we take things for granted.  We all have basic assumptions each day as we get out of our plush beds, take our hot showers, and drive to work in our well-maintained cars.  We gripe about the weather, about the traffic, about other people, even about the slow lines at the local fast food joint.  We take so much for granted every day – until we are inconvenienced in a way that gives us pause for thought.

For some people, losing their job impacts them in such a way that they have to re-evaluate their way of life.  It makes them slow down and select what is necessary and what is frivolous.  For other people, the threat of losing someone important in their life due to long-term illness, death, or divorce makes them stop and appreciate the many blessings in their lives.  For still others, it may just be a string of unfortunate events that sets in motion a different way of thinking.  But there are still many, many people who never truly “get” it.

Now granted, when things are going wrong, the last thing we really want to do is to find something to be grateful for in the midst of chaos.  But I have to tell you, as a girl who seems to be a “chaos magnet”, there is always, always, ALWAYS something to be thankful for – even if it’s just the fact that you have the energy to take in a gulp of fresh air in between body-wracking sobs.  Once you get up off the floor, you’ll have a new perspective and renewed strength, and you will once again begin to move towards whatever it is that God has in store for you.

Romans 12:12-13 gives us a good deal of instruction in this area: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.”  So while we are being thankful, we also need to remember to also give others something to be thankful for.  God doesn’t bless us just so we can keep it to ourselves; He wants us to pass it on.   And even though it sometimes rains, it sometimes storms, and sometimes we have a major typhoon to deal with, God is still there, reminding us to be patient, reminding us to have hope, and reminding us, above all, to be thankful for the sun that shines through when the rain ends.

 And then the blessings pour….

 Catch you on the flip side,

Ang

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