Thanksgiving being this week and all has put me in a “gratitude awareness” mode more than usual. Trying to stay there has been a challenge. Because we normally, as a society, feel so entitled, gratitude isn’t part of our (maybe I should say, “MY”) make-up. My heart is selfish, deceitful and for the most part, ungrateful. The first sin was ingratitude, you know. Eve, in the Garden of Eden, was looking for more - something she didn’t already have, something forbidden. Instead of looking at what she did have, she looked at what she didn’t have or couldn’t have. I’m the same way. I hate that about myself! What’s a girl to do??? How is one to get “grateful”? How can I become more thankful, or maybe even thankful at all? My journey to thankfulness started when I realized an important, life-changing statement was true. The world doesn’t revolve around me. Maybe you realized this already (a...
Eph 1:18 & 19 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe. Together, through God's Word, we will open the eyes of our hearts to God's perfect plan for our lives.