A daily practice, a daily Presence

Sometimes a swell of thankfulness rises up for the good we see and hear and feel all around us. But in the tough times, the hard circumstances, the tears, it is the patterns of daily gratefulness that emerge from within that hold us fast even when, even when. 

Thanksgiving is not an event, but a daily abiding in the LORD, impervious to how, in our own eyes, we judge what is good and what is not.

Because as we sing in church: 

God is good all the time,

All the time God is good.

Even beyond recognition or understanding or before the redeeming comes into focus.

Learning to be thankful FOR the daily blessings of God enables us to be grateful IN, when we see no explanation and cannot possibly understand.

Gratefulness is a pattern of seeing life differently, a pattern of seeing God in all things and trusting Him in it.  

Even in the hard stuff.

I have rested this year in the mercies of God, in times His strength beyond what I have ever known.

O give thanks to the LORD,

       for He is good;

for His steadfast love

        endures forever.

                Psalm 113. 1

Happy Thanksgiving, my friend.