Regina 
Living a life of thanksgiving is living a life of the most beautiful sort. We receive so many common blessings that fill up our days that we can begin to look upon the blessing as something we deserve.
I will give thanks with my whole heart. Psalm 138
Warm houses in the winter. Cool places to rest in the summer. The ability to see, to walk, to dance, to delight in life. Trees all bejeweled in autumn and snow covered branches amid winter’s crisp cold. A cozy chair to sit upon throughout the day and a bed dressed with clean linens to rest on at night. More than rice and beans for meals everyday, more than one meal, and snacks too. The sun rising faithfully in east by dawn and lying down in the west come night. Lamps to leak light all over rooms.
It’s the Light of His Word that can seep into the saddest places of our world, our hearts, our lives.
He presses us to thank Him often, but, we, the entitled ones, sometimes offer such sacrifice very little. How our hearts and minds hurt for our lack of obedience. We may let bitterness, disillusionment, cavalier attitudes take hold of us, or we could learn to give thanks. To search for the places God has blessed and refuse to meditate on the spewing complaints of the heart, despising our own complacency.
This is how you become thankful, quiet yourself inside and settle your own heart deep in God’s Word, so that you can see all the ways grace just keeps on coming for you.
For of His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. John 1:16
