With A Grid of Thankfulness...

For this I am Thankful!!

Before I sat down to write this post I poured a cup of french press coffee, fixed my kids glasses of organic milk, fed them and myself breakfast and cranked up the heat to 71... simply because I was cold.

For that I should be thankful!

I have so much to be thankful for. My kids are healthy. I am healthy. We can pay our bills. We are loved. We have friends. We have family. We have a full fridge, clothes to wear... new clothes to wear!! I have a thriving business and Drew has a great job.

For that we should be thankful.

But are we? Are you? Do we truly spend time thanking God for our abundance? Truly praising Him and thanking Him that we have been given much? We have been given much!!!

I woke up this morning with a heavy heart but also felt so blessed. Both of my children were giggling in their beds when I walked in both wanted me to snatch them up! 

What a loved mama, how can we not praise God for outstretched arms from our children. 

Lord thank you for my children and for their love for me!

I could go on and on about how we need to be thankful and I could make myself and you feel guilty for not being thankful... but thats not the point. 

I read this morning about looking at life thru a grid of thankfulness.

I really connected with it because I spend a lot of time looking thru grids. Thru the grid of my camera and then thru a grid when I am editing. 

I thought WOW... what if put a grid on my mind and my heart to begin viewing life with a thankful heart. 

To truly praise the Lord for all we are given.

I am not sure how to start changing my Hearts attitude from "oh I wish I had this" to "Lord thank you so much for what we do have. Truly Thank you Lord and forgive me for my lack of thankfulness." 

My challenge this week is to start looking at things thru a new grid...

with a gird of THANKFULNESS.