This Thanksgiving as you gather ’round the table, I’ll bet there will be a time for reviewing your gratitude. There likely will be lists. Every year we write ours on the table cloth.
There are the usual entries: Our health, our families, our friends, our homes, our stuff. Do we remember to add our skills and abilities; our talents?
Everything is a gift.
Yes, everything.
Even the hard things.
I wonder how the third servant in the Parable of the Talents felt, after he’d been lambasted by his master? Did he consider that a gift?
I wonder how our experience of misfortune can be changed if we consider it a gift?
Watch this short video. It’s powerful. It’s a reminder to always give thanks, for everything.
And to teach our children to do likewise.
(If reading this in an email, you can watch this video on YouTube.)
Some of you have seen this before. Is it okay if I do a repeat? I’m using parts of a post I published two years ago… but this one is good. It’s worth the re-exposing. Thanks for grace.
Video produced by Shift Worship.
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