I've noticed lately how ingratitude there is. People who don't say thank you, or those who can find the cloud around every silver lining. Even our "praise reports" after a recent Bible study sounded perilously half-empty.
Even I fall prey to this. Instead of being grateful that I was selected to be a Dale Carnegie instructor candidate, I instead focused on the failure. Instead of thankfulness for the many redeeming qualities in one of my co-workers, I focus on personality traits that fray my last nerve.
I am thankful for...
- a job when so many are unemployed
- the cup of coffee that my husband brings me each morning
- the gentle ppppht of snowflakes and the quiet hum of tires on a snowy road
- waking to find a soft kitty paw wrapped around my neck
- God, the Creator of all good things, and the things that are for my good even when I don't see them that way.
2 comments:
I would like to add to your list....2 things I'm thankful for...one I'm thankful for you!
and 2...drum roll...a doctor finally gave Jon a diagnosis!!! A TORN ACL!! HE'S BEEN WALKING FOR 9 MOS WITH A TORN ACL!
The silver lining? He won't be discharged until he has surgery and it is corrected...PTL!
Amazing, amazing. Praise God! For answered prayer--and God's provision of a diagnosis and corrective surgery at government expense!
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