Thankful Much?

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Thankful Much? I hear so many people using the word “hate” so much every day. Yesterday I heard it 7 times on the bus as soon as the students got on, and that’s when I stopped counting. “I hate this…I hate that…” It made me begin to think about gratitude…
So you hate your house? Go find a homeless person about your age and ask them how it feels to sleep on the street night after night. Ask what it’s like when the cold rain comes and you have nowhere to go. Ask what it’s like for people to walk down that street staring at you, as if you’re some sort of circus side show because you are homeless. Thankful much?
So you hate your parents? Go find someone who has grown up in an orphanage. Ask them how it felt to not have parents. Ask them how it felt to not have a mom, dad, or both to run to with questions about life. Ask them how it felt not to have a parent or parents to correct them when they were wrong, and to love them when they were hurting. Thankful much?
So you hate your school? Go find someone in a part of the world where they don’t have any education. Ask them how easy it is to feed their family. Ask them how much fun it is to not have the ability to read or write. Ask them how great of a life it is to know their children will face the same fate as well. Thankful much?
So you hate your life? Go find that Savior that hung on Calvary’s cross for you. Ask Him how it feels to die for someone that’s totally ungrateful. Ask Him how it feels to hang there knowing He’ll never hear a “Thank You” from many of those He’s hanging there for. Ask Him how it feels knowing He came to give “abundant life” yet so many will turn away from Him. Ask Him how it feels to pay the ultimate sacrifice for the world when so much of the world will doubt your very existence. Ask Him how He can face all that and still be defined in one word: LOVE. Thankful much?



That’s just a thought, and I welcome yours.
Until next time,
blake

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