Where do you stop being grateful when you start a list? I am so thankful for our home both here and “en route” to wherever we are heading, for hobbies & interests that lead me to form new friendships, learn new skills (or at least try) and are a joy to pursue. I am grateful for mobility: we walk most days, hike on trips, balance across rocky streams, climb hills and, adding in car travel we have driven hundreds of thousands of miles crisscrossing the USA and Canada..
I have been blessed to work part-time or full time since I was 12 and began selling donuts door to door. It is amazing that I have had the opportunity to work with so many solid, creative, outstanding leaders in scores of churches.
We have a warm house - the repair person just fixed our heat pump, in fact, we have what we need and more.
It is easy to be a bit cynical or start to compare one’s life with someone who aprears to have things or circumstances better than you - what a trap. Simply being grateful for what we have, what sustains us in the moment, what challenges us and what a grand adventure any aspect of life affords all point to living a life a gratitude and thanksgiving. A good habit is to recall two or three things each morning that you are grateful for as you plan your day.
Last post on thankful tomorrow but first another gem from the most quotable Mr. Lewis:
“We shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have tasted and seen. Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are “patches of Godlight” in the woods of our experience.” (Letters to Malcolm p122)
