Today I am Thankful

Every November my Facebook feed is brimming with the "what I'm thankful for, countdown to Thanksgiving". I love to see what people are thankful for and to be honest, I like to be impressed with the fact that people actually find things to be thankful for. As soon as Thanksgiving passes, my Facebook feed once again fills up with complaints and depressing song lyrics. Anyway, the point of this post is not to rant

about Facebook, but rather to say that I am not a "thankful only in November" kind of person. No, this is also not a woohoo look at me post, just hang in there. What I mean is that I wake up every morning of the year and thank God for all the good He has blessed me with. I thank Him for an amazing husband who loves me, a loving family who raised me, a great church family, a house, a car, food, health, ministry and anything else that comes to mind. However, it's not often that I wake up and say thank you for the things I don't like in life. This morning I was studying my lesson for Good News Club (a children's Bible club that I teach in one of our public schools) and it was a lesson on thankfulness. The story was about a boy who moved away from everything he knew and loved. In the end of the lesson he learned to say "thank you" for the place God had put him in. Though it may seem repulsive to give thanks for the things we hate the most in life, it is pleasing to God and we may find that the more we thank Him, the less terrible those things may seem. So today I am thankful for both the good and the bad. "In everything Give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."-1 Thessalonians 5:18