I know, I know, there’s all kinds of explanations to be thankful on Thanksgiving and really, every day. We should be keeping a GRATITUDE JOURNAL and even if we don’t blog or social media it out, flip back and refer to it, OFTEN; but sometimes it’s just not there and we’re just not feeling it (which is a perfect time to flip back through our gratitudes) and whenever we’re in the “I’m not feeling” phase, we come up with an excuse to be grateful. . .
Maybe in just a moment. . . we find, instead of a excuse to be grateful, we really uncover a reason, and sometimes, as we well know, a reason comes disguised as a hardship: Why would we be grateful for an illness or for a death, or something really bad that happens to us, or an unanswered prayer and unmet expectation. Why?
Because sometimes we are most grateful for not what we receive, but what we are enabled and encouraged and championed to be for Another person. So maybe the best thing that we could celebrate about Thanksgiving or any day is to be the reason Somebody else is grateful and truly thankful. . .
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