In recent years, you've probably seen a lot of people counting their blessings and posting on social media about what they're thankful for. Books have even been written about gratitude - and for good reason. Gratitude is extremely important for our emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
The more people talk about it, though, the easier it may be to dismiss it as something normal and ordinary. We might start trying to keep a list of things we're grateful for, but forget after a while. Life can be hard and it can be easier to complain or worry instead of being thankful.
In the video this week, I'm talking about Thanksgiving and we'll be looking at some of the different verses in the Bible that encourage us to be thankful. (There is much more that could be said about gratitude and thankfulness. I'm sure it will be a regular topic in studies to come!)
Click on the video below to view this week's study. If the video is unavailable, click here to view it in a different window.
Click here for a printable copy of the study guide.
After you watch the video, think about the questions asked at the end.
How do you practice thanksgiving and gratitude?Leave some thoughts in the comments on this post and have a wonderful week. I'm so thankful for each one of you!!!
What’s your trigger this week?
What are you thanking God for this week?
Tell someone you’re thankful for them!
Much Love,
Melissa
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Hey... I Loved it! Loved the trigger reminder, too. When I get anxious I'll give thanks :). Love eucharistic, too... In Catholic mass, eucharistio is the Lord's supper. :)
ReplyDeleteI forgot about the Lord's supper being the Eucharist. The trigger thought has been helpful for me this week!
DeleteI started a gratitude journal after reading the book One Thousand Gifts. That discipline and that book launched me into a new phase of my spiritual journey. The idea of having a trigger to remind us to go back to our spiritual practices (like counting gifts/being thankful) is great! For me I can see that in anxiety, but I know other personality types may experience that differently (fear, anger, shame, etc) - we each have different things we focus on. Gives me lots to think about - what messages I communicate internally and externally (ie to myself and to my family).
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