In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is...
Life is about learning to quit complaining about everything. Or as Jack Benny said, "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." When we come to realize that life is a series of events--good, bad, and indifferent--we will learn...
Sometimes those who have been in the church for a long time can adopt a joyless spirit… These people…become blind to the good things around them. …Instead, they obsess over bad things and want everyone else to…obsess with them. This kind of complaining, joyless spirit...
Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says, “Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done to me.” —————Gender-neutral...