It gets repeated much around this time of year..."What are you thankful for?".
The question can often seem shallow and surface level. I could easily give a list of things, situations, people, and other ideas that move me to be thankful. At the risk of being overly simplistic, I'll leave the list for someone else.
My thoughts center more around on what we miss in the process of making such a list. The poverty around the world contrasts the comfort in which I now write this post. Good health and family. It just doesn't seem like I'm doing enough to justify all that God's blessed my life with. To live out a thankful heart is much harder than to gleefully list all that I'm thankful for. It's one thing to tally the blessings. It's another thing to live a life that's given away breath by breath. That's what I want. To give my life so that others will be impacted, not impressed. Impressions come and go. This is the first part of the process of a new way to say thanks. More in upcoming posts.
2 comments:
You know what is funny? I just typed a blog yesterday too about this kinf of stuff. Funny how good works on people the same way at the same time isn't it?
Saying we are thankful and practicing actually BEING thankful by living out gratitude to a God who gave all for us are often so far apart on the great divide of life...thought-provoking post, here!
My goal: Not to just give thanks, but to LIVE thanks...
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