Being grateful is so needed in my life. I have to think of every little detail I am grateful for. It’s easy in our culture to start taking things for granted and even start complaining about little things when we are so, so blessed.
I don’t want to minimize anything hard that someone is going through, I’m just saying if we can find things to be grateful for during it, that we can overcome better. Just having a savior and God is something to be so thankful for. He can help us through anything.
When my past husband would go in the hospital multiple times for addiction and depression problems, it was so, so hard when he would come home from the hospital. I had a sponser from Al Anon at the time, and she would say, “Think of 25 things you are grateful for.” That would help me keep my sanity sometimes.
Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is praiseworthy-think about such things.
That is not telling us to just be in la la land about things. In the midst of hard things if we can keep thinking on these things, we can have peace in the midst of a storm. There is always something to be grateful for if we look hard enough.
This keeps us away from self pity!! Self pity is awful! If we get into some of this negative thinking, it can overtake us!! It can make us start being hopeless, which is not good. It can pull us down into depression.
I encourage you right now, no matter what you are going through, to make a list of 25 things you are grateful for. It will change things around for you, if you do it from your heart.
We have lots to be grateful for!!❤
Sometimes we forget❤
Find 25 things❤
Talk to you soon❤