The Thankful Thing

November began and a whole bunch of people started being thankful. Since I didn’t want to miss the thankful train, I decided to be thankful, too.

Starting this past Saturday, I began asking “thankful” questions on my Facebook status. My plan is to continue asking “thankful” questions throughout the month of November, hopefully exploring some of the often unnamed things for which we are grateful.

I got this idea from the book, “God Speaks Your Love Language: How To Feel and Reflect God’s Love.” In one of the chapters in this book (or sections of a chapter—I can’t remember which because I listened it), Gary Chapman gives ideas for more deeply experiencing God through the individual love languages. When it comes to gifts, he suggests taking the time to specifically thank God for everything—down to the chair on which you’re sitting and the computer on which you are reading. When we begin to see the things around us as gifts—no matter how small those things are—then we begin to see the world through grateful eyes.

And so…November will be a month during which I attempt to ask questions that will guide us to think about the things for which we’re grateful, things both great and small, and I hope you’ll participate in this attempt…not just because being thankful is the cool thing to do but because I think it will be good for our souls.

Now, to voice my answers to the past few days’ questions:

1) What is one thing about Saturdays for which you are grateful? The opportunity to sleep late (when I’m not up to go to one of my kids’ sports games!).

2) What is one thing about your church, or a church in your area, for which you are especially thankful? Stained glass windows.

3) What is one thing about Mondays for which you are thankful? Currently…being able to watch Dancing With The Stars.

God…I really am thankful…and not just in November. Amen.