{"id":6076,"date":"2018-11-22T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2018-11-19T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:15:05","slug":"the-grace-in-being-grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2018\/11\/the-grace-in-being-grateful.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Every Day Should Be A Day of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed \u2013 for the most part anyway \u2013 that when we\u2019re with family or friends almost everyone has a complaint to share; how something or someone in their life just isn\u2019t \u201cright,\u201d or has done them wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about your experience, but I&#8217;d wager the following: if we put our complaints on one side of the \u201cscale of life\u201d and, on the other side placed our gratitude for its gifts, the scale would be well-tilted toward the negative side!<\/p>\n<p>For most of us, it seems natural to not want much of what life gives us, which is the point of this short piece: If God is Good and he wouldn&#8217;t give a &#8220;stone&#8221; to any child who asks for bread&#8230;then how can anything the Divine dispenses into our life be a weight that drags us down? Could it be there&#8217;s more to the idea of our \u201cDaily Bread\u201d than meets the eye?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave it to you, but for me the &#8220;Bread\u201d of life is anything that nourishes and helps us grow our love for God. \u00a0Such Bread is not only good in every sense of the Word, but it is literally baked into every moment of our life&#8230;including those we want to reject. How can this be true?<\/p>\n<p>Think about it: haven\u2019t the real turning points in life \u2013 those that made us wiser, more compassionate people \u2013 been those that, if we could have, we would have avoided at all costs? And yet, hasn&#8217;t it been these same moments that transformed us in the most profound way?<\/p>\n<p>If we see the truth of this revelation, the secret Good hidden in the \u201cbad\u201d&#8230;then perhaps we can learn to be grateful for every thing \u2013 and I mean <em>every moment\u00a0<\/em><em>that God gives to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?attachment_id=6075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6075\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/92\/2018\/11\/Gratitude-is-the-Awareness-11.16.18-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"man standing in northern lights shower\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed \u2013 for the most part anyway \u2013 that when we\u2019re with family or friends almost everyone has a complaint to share; how something or someone in their life just isn\u2019t \u201cright,\u201d or has done them wrong. I don&#8217;t know about your experience, but I&#8217;d wager the following: if we put our complaints&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,511],"tags":[3143,3142,3141,3144,339,212,3145,919],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-remembering-awareness","category-uplifting-quote-key-lesson","tag-accepting-what-life-brings","tag-awareness-in-the-moment","tag-being-grateful","tag-gathering-with-family-and-friends","tag-grace","tag-gratitude","tag-love-for-god","tag-thanksgiving"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Every Day Should Be A Day of Thanksgiving - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2018\/11\/the-grace-in-being-grateful.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Every Day Should Be A Day of Thanksgiving - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you noticed \u2013 for the most part anyway \u2013 that when we\u2019re with family or friends almost everyone has a complaint to share; how something or someone in their life just isn\u2019t \u201cright,\u201d or has done them wrong. 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