The Best Way to Become More Thankful...

Wishing you a day filled with thankfulness-revelations! James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above,coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,who does not change like shifting shadows. In light of so much suffering and loss recently,suddenly potato salad fixings for a belated birthday supper tonightseem sacred, the ground beneath my feet, holy! The best way to become more tuned to gifts we else might overlookIs to have them withheld a bit; how dearer then the thing we tookFor granted. How purer the joy we often gave no second glanceUntil means we could not control reminded us of gifts God grants The best way to become more glad and grateful for the gift in handIs to suffer the loss of it to gain a better understand--ing of love’s meeker thankfulness for gifts we did not recognizeUntil God’s higher thoughts and ways took heedless postures by surprise The best way to become more sympathetic and more humbly kindIs not from fortune’s pedestals, but in the reeling, hurting grindOf heartache’s holy ground, where mingled prayers and tears and groans imploreTo waken us to gifts that we had not given enough thanks for © Janet Martin Someone reminded me of this verse recently...a treasure to cherish as we trust in the Giver of every good and perfect gift! Eph.3:20-21 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably/exceedingly more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.