I’m really happy Thanksgiving is here. It’s good to head home and see old friends and family again. Our first snowfall here was on Friday (I love the first snowfall!) The past few days have been really relaxing.
This past Sunday, a friend of mine was speaking at church on gratitude. Gratitude, she said, was a feeling or emotion of thankfulness. Expectation is crucial to feeling thankful. So your feeling of thankfulness is directly related to how high or low your expectations are. As a Canadian, I have a roof over my head, I eat well, and my life has a certain stability about it. I can have high expectations and take all of that for granted, chasing after what I don't have, or I can cultivate thankfulness in my life by realizing what I do have.
In one of my classes I'm reading a book called Life on the Vine by Philip D. Kenneson. It describes gratitude as something that you cannot work towards. You cannot work on being thankful. Rather it is a letting go of responsibility and striving that allows you to rest and be thankful, and only God can help you do that.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
In one of my classes I'm reading a book called Life on the Vine by Philip D. Kenneson. It describes gratitude as something that you cannot work towards. You cannot work on being thankful. Rather it is a letting go of responsibility and striving that allows you to rest and be thankful, and only God can help you do that.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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