You should be thankful....
Hi Reader,
Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray
READ THIS
Quite a few times here at Living Contentment we've looked at the relation between gratitude and contentment. Today i heard a quote that made the connection between them a bit clearer - at least for me.
Instead of adapting to goodness... celebrate goodness
— Robert A. Emmons and Jeremy Adam Smith
Many times we desperately hope for something - and then we get it....and merely adapt to it.
The thing we thought was going to be life changing - is now normal.
The house that was going to make it all better - now is just fine.
The job that was going to be fulfilling - is now status quo.
The ....whatever. We adapted to it. We took it into our lives - made it somehow normal, and just move on.
We can easily adapt to something ...but when we do so - we may be missing an opportunity to be thankful. To be grateful.
DO THIS
What thing do you have now - that you had hoped/anticipated / thought was going to be a game-changer?
Another way of thinking of it is What do you have now that is an answer to a prayer you had in the past?
Have you taken a miraculous answer to prayer - and somehow made it just part of life.
Don't allow yourself to just adjust to goodness---remember it and celebrate it.
PRAY THIS
God give me eyes to see the goodness right in front of me.
Give me a mind to recall the things I asked you for.
Give me a heart to appreciate the goodness you have for me.
Amen
Talk to you next Thursday!
~George