A Nickel Spiral of Thanks

If every thanks you spoke one day last week was a nickel, how many nickels would you have?

Did you speak any to your spouse?

Did you extend any to your children?

Did you offer any up to God?

Everyone is conscious of thanks today, so we wouldn't get nickels for today's thanks.

But today could be a template.

Then, in the middle of Black Friday when someone gets to that last toy first, you could give thanks that their child will be elated.

Or, in the middle of next week's crushing news, so close to Christmas, you could try and remember to express thanks that God is the God of comfort and presence.

And perhaps, in the middle of that repeating argument with your spouse, you could stop and tell him or her how thankful you are that they are traveling this road with you.

On just a regular ole' day of living life:

How tall would your nickel spiral of thanks be?

Want to bless God's heart on this Thanksgiving Day?

Ask him to help you carry today's template of thanks with you into tomorrow and beyond. Then we will remember that he is the God of all thanks and all gifts.

Happy Thanking...may your nickel spiral grow tall and sound.

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