God's gifts... all is from God
I am surrounded with friends and family in difficult situations presently. How can I tell them, show them gratitude? It sounds so trite: "Be thankful in all things." When my own contentment is still so tenuous, fragile, how can I say, "Make the choice to be thankful"? But it is Life. This, this acknowledgement that all is from God, all is filtered through His grace. Life does not all feel like grace, like kindness. How can we trust God to give us the good and not trust Him when He gives us the bad -- especially because we do not even know whether a thing is good or bad? Job found a way to do it: "He gives and He takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." And his deep, life-wrenching gratitude came after sitting in wretched loneliness, discomfort, and fear. Is there a way to come to that place before... before we lose it all? Starting from December 27, there are many of God's gifts to catch up on... - Abel: "Mom...