Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! 

Something incredible I have learned about gratitude, is the real power it has to transform. It can transform a moment, a circumstance, a life, a relationship, a person, and a heart. The real power happens when expressing it towards anything you might feel normally inclined to complain about. If something goes “wrong” praise God that He is still in control and express gratitude for His will. This shows Him that you trust His plans for you. Express gratitude in ALL things especially the things that hurt the most. Express gratitude and praise for the things you are being taught from the unexpected road bumps in life. It might be a health challenge, a financial trial, a difficult relationship, or an act of unkindness from a complete stranger. Complaining will only pull you further down the path of despair but gratitude and praise towards the Lord will quickly pull you to a higher level where you can feel peace and where you can have a higher perspective from the Lord’s point of view. From this place you can look down upon the “valley of the shadow of death” and see its value and purpose in blessing your life. A unique perspective and understanding that only can come from a place of peace. God has an interesting way of turning what we deem as “bad” into some of our greatest blessings! Even when we don’t see it in the moment, if we exercise trust by genuinely thanking Him in those moments when it seems hardest to do, we often find that suddenly those trials become lighter and often times resolve and disappear much more quickly than we could have imagined. This is something I have learned over the last four years. Gratitude truly is powerful and can take us from the valleys and depths of despair to those beautiful peaks of peace and joy!