Thankful | Ain't Complicated

More Than Character Can Handle

Overindulgence is giving your children more than their character can handle, exceeding their ability to manage the blessings with gratefulness.

I have started reading through Dorcas Smucker’s new book, Tea and Trouble Brewing. I get to write a review of it as part of a virtual book tour!

This isn’t that review, but I wanted to call attention to an outstanding excerpt Dorcas uses from another book, Parenting is Heart Work: Read it all

Cast Down? Disquieted? Why?

A cause for thankfulness from my reading this morning:

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted within me?
hope in God:
for I shall yet praise him,
who is the health of my countenance.”
-Psalm 43:5

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Gratefulness, a Statement of Faith

“If today isn’t a thanksgiving day for me,
I need to adopt gratefulness
as a statement of faith.”
-Mark Roth

Another short post: Thank you, Lord.

And this on Twitter: Read it all

A Heart Caressed

I stood at our dining table not that long ago this evening, droopy of eye and droopy of spirit.

Scanning the table for something different, I saw it: a little, dark blue, hardcover book. Daily Strength for Daily Needs, declares the gold print on the spine.

I opened it randomly. Oh, hey! A day-by-day devotional book. And what, pray tell, might I find for today? Read it all

Believing Every Word of It

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

I believe every word of it.

Every. Last. Single. One. Of. It.

Do you?

Sure you do! Read it all

Choose: Self-Pity or Thanksgiving

Self-pity is one of several self- things from which I ask God to deliver me.

Strangely enough, though, I don’t remember considering that a thankful spirit sweeps away a “negatively self-focused” spirit. Oh, sure, I’ve known (and even taught!) that gratefulness can lift us out of depression and discouragement. But, somehow, I must have missed what being thankful can do to kill being self-pitying.

Then I read Andrée’s piece Read it all

As I Was Told, I Asked

To ask or not to ask. Now that can be a real puzzler sometimes.

Especially when the “target” for the request is God Almighty Himself.

Why should that be such a puzzler? I guess I don’t know.

Whatever the case, Tuesday morning I posted on my devotional blog: Read it all