Thanksgiving All Year
Since this is the week of the year that we focus on being thankful, I want to share with you my thoughts on just that. I’d heard it said numerous times, through the years, that we should thank God especially when times are tough. Feeling down and stressed and upset is not usually a time we choose to praise God. At times when I felt distressed in the past, I would try to be thankful but always came up with a thought to counteract my gratefulness. I might thank God for my wonderful house and then immediately think “Although this isn’t exactly where I want to live.” Or, I might give praise for my amazing husband just to remind myself how angry I felt with him the night before. Why did I struggle to find something to be sincerely thankful about at times when life would get the best of me? (I guess I’m gonna have to blame this on sugar – the usual culprit for my self-pity times.) Trying to give thanks during the storms seemed superficial to me – but I kept on trying. And