365 Days of Grace and Gratitude

By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 29/11/2023

Last week when God kept nudging me to write about gratitude, I couldn’t shake the fact that gratitude needs to be more than something we practice on Thanksgiving–if we even pause our eating long enough to be thankful! I couldn’t help but think that our lives would look so much different if we started each day with five minutes of gratitude–that maybe instead of sitting down to watch the news or scroll through social media, we should sit with God for a few minutes and acknowledge what we’re grateful for, even if it’s just one thing. But, then I kept coming back to the parts of our lives that are trainwrecks–the parts that force us to think about the “worst-case scenarios” and what might happen in those, the chaotic parts, the parts that keep us teetering on the edge hoping we can find a way to hang on.