Like today, I have feelings of depression, my job is unstable, on and on. But when I feel like this, I have a post it on my desk that reads; “Who Is Driving”. That lets me know that I am not the driver, Jesus is my driver, He will take me to the many destinations in this life, if I let him and make the choices that are Godly. For this I have ‘gratitude’. Jesus always drives (leads) me in the right direction.

Hi Therese:
I rode high on the tech-sector bubble, and was a millionaire by age 40. Since then, I’ve lost my brother and sister to suicide, my marriage, and my wealth. I was so broke at one point that I subsisted primarily on milk and cereal. Then things began to turn around. Now I am grateful for actually buying a full tank of gas, taking my kids out to eat at a fast food joint, basic cable, the list goes on. I am so much more grateful now than I was when I had an embarrassment of riches. Ironic, isn’t it? I’m convinced that God loves irony.
M

Thank you!

For some reason we get so involved in making money to purchase a car, a home, etc. Then we get so involved worrying about meeting our car pmts., home pmts. etc. that we forget to be grateful that we were able to purchase that car, home, etc. and that we are alive and healthy.

Gratitude…remembering what “feeling good” feels like when you’re confined to a hospital bed. And once you’re discharged from the hospital, how sweet the simple things of life have become that you once took for granted.

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So much for using HTML tags for style…

Once a long time ago, I made up my mind to save in a savings account. One that my husband did not know about, because he spent any money that was left over from one check to the next.
As time went on, our car broke down. The amount of the bill was just the amount of the savings account. My husband was besides himself with worry. When I told him that I had the very amount in the bank, he was elated. BUT It was I who forgot to be grateful. Someone else had to remind me that I should be grateful I had that very amount at the very right time I will always praise the Lord from now on…for it was his spirit that put it in my mind to save in the first place.

My husband & I are what you would call colateral damage from the “9/11″ disaster. He worked for a major airline & within a year, all we had worked 20yrs.to achieve was gone. I had a small business that soon failed due to the loss of economy in the area. We watched all of our friends lose their homes, marriages fall apart,& even had a couple of guys take their own lives in despair. By some major blessing, we had not yet jumped into the “spending spree” that follows after many attaining their life’s dream & the money that goes with it. So instead of losing the material things, we lost hope & were saddened by the knowledge that all we had attained was gone. Even after the dust settled we were able to be grateful. Grateful for the fact we were still intacted as a family. A lil worst for the wear, yet vertical, health & Blessed!!!! Don’t get me wrong, we choose to go into Ministry & have been in Bible College for the last four years.
It is still hard & we are still VERY BROKE, yet Grateful & Blessed!!!

GRATITUDE IS WHEN YOU WAKE-UP IN THE MORNING.

An attitude of Gratitude is very necessary so that the very best of our true selves can be exuded. When we exude ingratitude it is as if we are saying to God that we are not appreciative of all the gifts he does already bestow on us daily.
Blessings Running Over,
Y’Osepa Scott
of San Antonio, TX

I place my bedroom slippers under my bed every night before I go to sleep. This way I have to get down on knees to retrieve them every morning. Once on my knees I thank God for my breathe, another day, another dawn, my family, my health, and my work. And then I ask that His Will be done and not mine. Excellent equation for Daily Happiness.
Giddy Gil in Chihuahua, Chih. mexico

I usually thank god everyday for my blessings & others for anything that they do for me, but I’m not feeling thankful right now, because I am very unhappy with some very difficult present issues in my life. I want to yell & cuss when I feel like it, without people pointing their fingers with self-righteous hypocrisy & telling me how I should think, feel, act, what tone of voice I should speak in, & what choice of words I should or shoudn’t use. I find that yelling & cussing can sometimes be liberating & empowering.

Ha ha ha!! That’s great. There is nothing wrong at all with having a good old fashioned private temper trantrum wiht just yourself or with some trusted friends. We Have fun with it and of course we’re not abusive to each other or ourselves. We just scream and yell and curse and whatever. I do it every so often and my friends and other ovoed ones just laugh and join in when they need to. Then we can go back to being grateful!

This songs has been my anthem: “Give thanks with a GRATEFUL heart…Give thanks to the Holy One…Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ His Son. And now let the weak say I’m strong; let the poor say I rich because of what the Lord has done…GIVE THANKS!”

THANKFUL,YES I HAVE 3 NEW BABIES THIS YEAR,I AM A VERY PROUD GREAT GRANDMOTHER, WHO CAME HOME TO DIE 14 MONTHS STILL ABLE TO HOLD KISS AND LOVE THEM. IT SEEM LIKE I HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE FOR AT TIMES LOSING THE HOUSE IS A MAIN CONCERN THEN I THINK THERE ARE MANY HOMLESS,HUNGRY,PEOPLE WHO ARE WORST OFF. JUST READ MRS B. AND THE SOCIAL WORKERS WHO GOT HER A THANKSGIVING DINNER, AND THOUGHT HOW YESTERDAY AS I CLEANED THE BEANS THOUGHT THIS IS OUR THANKSGIVING DINNER RE-FRIED BEANS WITH CHEESE BURRITOES. I DONT GET FOOD STAMPS AND ASHAMED TO BEG, THEY WILL TASTE GOOD EVEN IF I DON’T GET ANYTHING ELSE. SOME MIGHT SAY WHAT DO I REALLY HAVE TO BE THANKFULL FOR I HAVE MY SONS GRANDKIDS GREAT GRAND KIDS, A ROOF OVER OUR HEAD THE BOYS ARE OFF HARD DRUGS. MONEY TO SURVIVE ANOTHER DAY GET TO SEE MOST OF THE KIDS,THERE ARE OTHER I’D LOVE TO SEE BUT CAN’T. XMAS WILL BE HARDER, IN DEC. 2004 MY OLDEST KILLED HISSELF HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO GET OVER IT,CAN’T CRY,ANGER,RESENTMENT AND GUILT. THANKFULL FOR WHAT I HAVE, A LOT LESS THAN MOST BUT A LOT MORE THAN SOME. BE THANKFULL FOR ALL THE CHILDREN YOURS AND OTHERS HOPING THEY WILL MAKE IT A BETTER TOMORROW. HELPING THE LESS FORTUNATE YOU MIGHT FIND A ANGEL.

I have to work on being greatful. I have an illness that has taken so much of my life away, more than I ever thought an illness could. I am judged by most whom I come in contact with, and my friends/family deserted me. My oldest son is very ill and might not make it to his 18th birthday. Every day is a struggle. Some mornings I am not greatful to wake up another day same as before. It is very hard to see the positive in my current situation.

BEING ALIVE AND WELL, AWAKENING ANOTHER DAY, MAY APPEAR TO SOME AS A GIVEN, HOWEVER IT ISN’T IT’S ALL BECAUSE OF ONE AMAZING BEING. MIND BODY AND SPRIT, THAT HAS A PURPOSE FOR US ALL. I AM THANKFUL TO ALL THAT OUR FATHER, HAS SPARED ME THIS TIME TO CONNECT AND TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON BEING THANKFUL. I AM, AND WILL ALWAY’S PRAISE HIM, BEFORE HIM THERE IS NO OTHER. IN GOOD TIMES AS WELL AS IN THE BAD. I READ A COUPLE OF DAY’S AGO, THAT WE AS HUMANS GO THROUGH QUITE A BIT OF EMOTIONAL,AND PHYSICAL TURMOIL, THAT IN TURN MAKES US QUESTION HIS WILL, IT IS THAT, THAT MAKES US STRONGER. AND IF WE BELIEVE HIM WE SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. TO LOVE THE LORD IS LIKE TRUELY LOVING THY SELF. IT’S THE BEAUTY OF LIFE, WEITHER IT MAY BE GOOD OR BAD, YOU CAN SURVIVE, IF YOU ONLY BELIEVE.

The Bibles teaches us (me) to be grateful in “ALL” things,no matter what,& I am so glad that I have learned to do so. When I feel as through I want to scream, I shout “JESUS” & I continue to do so until I receive the victory I long look for & need.Yes I know that I am human,but one thing that trumps that is that I am a child of God,a mere servant of the Lord who desires to please Him. I believe that once we come into the understanding,the knowledge,the acceptence,& the aprreciation of God’s word,& the “will” of God, we will know that obedience is better than sacrifice,then we will “know” that it is a wonderful thing to be “GRATEFUL”!!!!!!

Luke 17:11-19. No question at all. Great blessing start with a thankful heart.
Thank you Jesus!

I am so thankful for my many blessings the GREAT LORD has shined upon me . I am no longer homless, a brand new place to stay in with other ladies, ANd he wakes me up every morning to a brand new day.And he watches over my beloved blessing,and keeps them safe and sound. as I look back behind me briefly, at all the turmoil I came out ,I GET ON MY KNEES AND THANK MY HEAVENLY FATHER ABOVE> THANK_YOU FATHER!

I am very thankful for ever blessing i receive the greatest blessing is i know that GOD and CHRIST loves me as i am and blessing of my family my wife is now with the LORD and i am blessed with my three son that she bought into this world and when our granddaughter was born i know that she smiled down to us i have so much to be thankful for my health so that i can be here and enjoy my blessingI GIVE PRAISE TO GOD AND CHRIST EVERTHING

first off i want to thank the lord for all the blessings that he has given me.if it weren’t for him everyday i could not make it through the day let alone take my first breath. i am so grateful to him for giving me another day and a wonderful family that i have. even though most days i think i can’t get through it,he gives me another boost that i need just to make it. even though we are losing everything that we have and especially our home, i know that i have laid it at his feet and now it is up to him to help us have another home. he said that he would not put as much as we can handle on us and some days it’s real hard but he is the only one that can take those burdens away from us and i am trusting in him everyday that he will provide for us. i love you lord and if there is anything in my life that is unsatisfactory to you. i pray that you help me to overcome it and forgive me for all of my life’s sins. because i want to go to heaven and nothing is going to stand in the way of that.i pray that you hear my prayer one more time, and please give us a relief from all our problems.only you know whar they are and only you can make it happen.i love you lord. your servant and messinger.

i want tothank god for giving me the opportunity to see another day. i want to thank him for my family.my two wonderful kids and my husband. my loving sister and brothers and my sick mom.thank him for providing me with a job where i get to share his word with everyone whose heart is broken and want to talk. i get to introduce them to this wonderful savior of mine who has brought me through some rocky roads.thanksing him for giving me the strength to deal with the contriversies at work. he has been a good god. i has never failed me yet and for that i am grateful.

I am most grateful for the LORD for giving me the gift of life and for the many many Blessings that he has blessed me with. As, I look back over my past, I remember when there where times when I didn’t think I would make it, I actually thought I was going to lose my mind along with everything I had worked for, but the LORD made a way, and gave me strength during the worst times of my life (Thank You). I am most grateful and thankful for my beautiful daughters who are my heart beat, without them in my life, my life would not be complete. So, very grateful for my foster parents for giving me a place to call home and for always being there for me. My LORD is worthy of all thanks and praises.

I am so thankful for our precious lord and saviour for giving his only begotten son so that we may live. Lord bless everyone who has posted a comment and give them their hearts desire that is pleasing to you. I love you, you are my strength. Bless my family and friends to continue to do your will.

My Father, my love, my friend, thank you for this day. thank you for loving me when I don’t know how to love myself. thank you for opening the doors that you’ve openend and closing those that should be shut. thank you for new beginnings and a new start in life. that you for family and friends that you’ve sent into my life to help me win this race. Lord i surrend everything I am, all I want to be, and all I have to you right now. Lord forgive me for my sins. Use me Lord for your glory. Help me to be a blessing to someone just as others have been a blessing to me. If there be anything in me Lord that is not of you, please show me and I will change. I am nothing and can do nothing with You. Lord thank you for my children and help me to be a better mother. Lord I love you more than life itself and I will serve you forever. Lord thank you for this website and for blessing you’ve bestoed on everyone that has read. Thank you for your piece, love, hope and understanding. Ilove you and long for the day to be with in your presence.

I thank God for the love, kind and protection over myself and my family.
in fact since I started to serve God my life is not the same as it was.
Praise God. Ogunsina.s.s

I would be remiss if I didn’t express my gratitude for blogs like this one. Thank you for reminding me to be grateful I am a quote junkie and loved the quotes.