If you think Independence
Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that
title, hands-down.
Thanksgiving is a time
when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian
system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying but on being thankful and
expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
Gratitude is a quality
similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order
to exist at all.
None is more impoverished
than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for
ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Gratitude is the inward
feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express
that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Gratitude is the sign of
noble souls.
When a person doesn’t have
gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Pride slays thanksgiving,
but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man
is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
It does not matter what
your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your
situation has not changed, you begin to change. The key that unlocks the gates of
heaven is a thankful heart. Entrance into the courts of God comes as you simply
begin to praise the Lord.
Gratitude unlocks the
fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial
into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into
a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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