Daily Devotion – Choosing Gratitude in a Difficult Season

Daily Devotion – Choosing Gratitude in a Difficult Season

This may be the most unusual Thanksgiving season you’ve experienced. After a year of difficult changes that have affected everyone around the globe, it may be harder than ever to truly be grateful. But with God’s help, we can choose gratitude during Thanksgiving 2020....
Daily Devotion – Exercising Gratitude with a Grateful Heart

Daily Devotion – Exercising Gratitude with a Grateful Heart

How does exercising gratitude to God with a grateful heart, in two key ways, increase your joy in life as well as strengthen your faith? Most of us are familiar with the stirring opening scene to the movie, “The Sound of Music.” Remember it? I’m talking about when the...
Daily Devotion – An Attitude of Gratitude

Daily Devotion – An Attitude of Gratitude

My daughter chooses the bedtime reading for me from a little book called ‘Bible Promises for Women’. She wants me to read out loud for both of us. Each night the topic she’s chosen has dealt with the exact situation I’d already faced that day...
Daily Devotion – Simple Gratitude

Daily Devotion – Simple Gratitude

Thankful Prayers Every night just before prayers, we ask our kids what they are thankful for from that day. Most days this is an easy exercise but sometimes, it’s more like pulling teeth. Their favorite PJs were dirty or they didn’t have time for a bubble...
Daily Devotion – Give Thanks? Really?

Daily Devotion – Give Thanks? Really?

I Thessalonians 5:18 says, “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” Give thanks in ALL circumstances? Really? You may be asking yourself, “Am I supposed to give thanks even when I’m dealing with a terminal illness? In...
Daily Devotion – One Said, “Thank You.”

Daily Devotion – One Said, “Thank You.”

When my children were little and received a gift or a treat, I remember prompting them by asking, “What do we say?” to avoid any awkward, empty silence that should be filled with a sincere, “Thank you.” The story of the ten lepers in the Bible has always intrigued me....