Thanks? Bruce Willis and Gratitude

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Posted by Katie

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What do Bruce Willis and Gratitude have in common? They can both take some serious blows and keep on keepin’ on! Lost your job? No retirement savings? No longer live in a home you own? Cancer reared its stupid head in your family? Rough marriage? Unpredictable kid(s)? No college savings for the unpredictable kid(s)? Life generally full of understandably good reasons to be grumpy?

It’s time for Die Hard Gratitude. That’s the kind that flows from the heart of a person who knows that an absence of Love isn’t the reason that life got crummy. A person with Die Hard Gratitude might have, at some point, stumbled across one of the following scriptures…

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; His love endures forever.” – 1 Chrn. 16:34

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; His love endures forever.” – Psalm 106:1

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; His love endures forever.” – Psalm 118:1

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.” – Psalm 136:1

…or even 1 Chronicles 16:41, 2 Chronicles 20:21, 2 Chronicles 5:13, Psalm 107:1, Psalm 118:29, Psalm 136:2, 3 or 26!

Or, MY personal favorite, Jeremiah 33:10,11:

…there will be heard once more the sounds of joy and gladness…and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying, “Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before, says the Lord.

Die Hard Gratitude, folks. Thank Him. And then thank Him again. Every day. Thank Him because the crummy stuff will change, but He will remain the same. Forever.

Happy Thanksgiving. Amen and Amen.


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