Happy Tuesday everyone and welcome to another day that I hope reminds you to take the time to add and entry to your gratitude journal or start a journal.
The purpose of the journal is to record your daily or weekly reports or moments that give you gratitude.
It should not become a chore or a burden it should flow and help to enhance your life and remain as a record of how your life is evolving with a sense of purpose and appreciation.
One of my favorite quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night
,For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.”
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present
and not giving it.” -William Arthur Ward
These two quotes I hope you meditate on today and take to heart that life has many blessings. Growing up I was always taught to ask God in our prayers to add things into our life, prayer requests. I have no doubt that prayer works and yes it is important to pray for those who are needy, sick and afflicted and pray for mercy. However I think for every prayer request that we send out to God we should also give much more attention or quantitative importance to giving thanks and thanking God for the many blessings that have been bestowed on us. Prayer has many powers and when we pray we are taught that God listens to each one.
How great it must be to hear his children give thanks and appreciation.
So today, take the time to start a life of gratitude. Take time to start a quiet time to pray and give thanks to the heavens.
I leave you with this quote:
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but
that we will hear Him. ~William McGill
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