Thank you for the rain and the cold, for the running nose and the sore throat. Thank you for the warm jacket, for the work, for hot water and the delicious breakfast. Thank you for caring family, for the subway with Wi-Fi, for the traffic fine, for the late courier and the partners who have missed the deadlines.
It sounds unusual, doesn’t it? But that is exactly the power of gratitude. We are used to giving thanks for joy, but we do not give thanks for what truly shapes us. Sometimes it is through losses that God teaches us to appreciate, through expectation — to trust, through difficulties — to see that everything is in His hands.
November is the Month of Gratitude. Try keeping a notebook and write down every day what you are grateful for — both the good and the difficult. Write it sincerely, from your heart. And then, six months later, reread it, and you will understand that nothing was in vain. Every day, every detail led you closer to the Truth.
Give thanks for everything. And you will see that gratitude changes not the life around you, but you. And that is where everything begins.
It sounds unusual, doesn’t it? But that is exactly the power of gratitude. We are used to giving thanks for joy, but we do not give thanks for what truly shapes us. Sometimes it is through losses that God teaches us to appreciate, through expectation — to trust, through difficulties — to see that everything is in His hands.
November is the Month of Gratitude. Try keeping a notebook and write down every day what you are grateful for — both the good and the difficult. Write it sincerely, from your heart. And then, six months later, reread it, and you will understand that nothing was in vain. Every day, every detail led you closer to the Truth.
Give thanks for everything. And you will see that gratitude changes not the life around you, but you. And that is where everything begins.