Comments on: A Life of Gratitude – from Beth Moore

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:24:46 +0000

I, too, am working day to day and moment to moment on being grateful in all things. Especially in being grateful for the things our culture tells us are bad. I’ve recently been diagnosised w/ fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and multiple chemical sensitivities. This is, I am told, a bad thing. But what I’ve found is that my heart is opening up and softening through this and my level of gratitude is raising and my family and I have grown so close these past few months – all huge blessings brought on by this ‘bad’ health. So I work on being grateful – even on the days filled with pain because even those days have their own special blessings, such as my 8yr old leaning over to give me a gentle little kiss on my cheek

By: AmandainTN

AmandainTN — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:05:46 +0000

Great post! I have been finding myself reminded more and more to give thanks “for all things”. Meaning, I have found myself being led to give God thanks for the “bad” stuff. I realize that I am shaped by the hard times as much as or more than the easy times. I believe God wants us to so completely rely on Him that often those bad times are a moment when we have no one to go to but Him…and that is right where He wants us. It is so easy to thank God for good stuff, but thanking Him for the bad stuff is important, too. One example for me would be on Friday. I was having a busy, busy, stupid busy day and the computer was so slow and then just went down. I was mad, the customers were mad, it was bad. I called another dealership to ask if they had any manual contracts. The lady I normally talk to there wasn’t available. Her son had been hit by a semi. It made my computer problems pale, obviously. I had to stop and thank God for the computer problems. It is my cup and I need to be thankful for it, good or bad.

By: Yvie

Yvie — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:33:29 +0000

I remember Christ saying, “The Kingdom of heaven is within you.” It’s one of the most wonderful passage I’ve heard.

Be thankful of each breath that we take. Be thankful of the beautiful morning sunlight. Appreciate the people around you. I always practice this mantra and it has wielded me great results.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful article.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:53:42 +0000

Pretty good post. I’ve seen these red flags of ingratitude in the jobs I’ve had. I tell you what, I let those stay too long and it’s not long before I’m out of that job.

On a side note, you have some very distracting adds … a little disturbing …

But back on track now: thanks for the pretty good post.