You probably get the same answers I do when I ask people how they are doing. Responses range from “Great!” to “Rotten!” and everything in between.
A friend of mine, whom you may know, often answers that question this way: “It is well with my soul, and I’m dealing with the rest.”
Isn’t that great?! It’s a conscious realignment of one’s perspective. The thing I need most… has already been taken care of by Him who loved me all the way to the cross. And if He did that… then all is well and everything else is really going to be ok. I find such a realignment of perspective engenders a spirit of gratitude.
I heard a saying recently: Thankfulness is an admission of both our insufficiency and Christ’s all-sufficiency.
The phrase “Give thanks” occurs sixty-nine times in my Bible, plus many more related phrases like “giving thanks.” It must be a thing! Indeed it is. See Ephesians 5:20.
What things have happened to you today—big and little, good and not-so-good—concerning which a spirit of thankfulness is the appropriate response?