A grateful heart

This is an excerpt that I took from passionatehomemaking.com. It really hit me right in the gut, I can't wait to get started on this book....

This has hit home to me as I have recently read it retold in Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy by Nancy Leigh Demoss. Through my recent struggles with insomnia, God has been teaching me many lessons. This has been one of them. I confess…I am a whiner. I complain when I am tired, when the children don’t behave, when my husband doesn’t arrive on time from work and dinner gets cold. It is so easy to focus on the problems, the struggles, the challenges in our lives, rather than actively striving to choose gratitude. It does not happen by chance. It is not acquired in a moment. It is the fruit of a thousand choices.

Things to Be Thankful For
(Originally published at Revive Our Hearts)

-Be thankful for the clothes that fit a little too snug, because it means you have enough to eat.
-Be thankful for the mess you clean up after a party, because it means you have been surrounded by friends.
-Be thankful for the taxes you pay, because it means you’re employed.
-Be thankful that your lawn needs mowing and your windows need fixing, because it means you have a home.
-Be thankful for your heating bill, because it means you are warm.
-Be thankful for the laundry, because it means you have clothes to wear.
-Be thankful for the space you find at the far end of the parking lot, because it means you can walk.
-Be thankful for the lady who sings off-key behind you in church, because it means you can hear.
-Be thankful when people complain about the government, because it means we have freedom of speech.
-Be thankful for the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours, because it means you’re alive.