Attitude of Gratitude

A little gratitude-practice does a heart good!  "Thank you, LORD, for the rain, the sunshine, the food, family and friends, the dirty laundry ... the dirty laundry?"

 

God's Word says in Deuteronomy 12:18, "Thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou putteth thine hands unto."  Unless we plan to give up handling dirty laundry, battling traffic, managing on a shoestring budget, or playing weekend plumber, we best learn to rejoice 'cause life is sometimes filled more with the bad and the ugly than the good.  More simply, "Be ye thankful." (Colossians 3:15)  No if's, and's, or but's -- just be thankful.  Apply an attitude-of-gratitude in all things!

 

Thou that hast given so much to me – Give one thing more, a grateful heart

Not thankful when it pleaseth me – As if thy blessings had spare days

But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise.  -- G. Herbert