A grateful heart is a heart filled with thanksgiving. A heart becomes grateful because it has realized there is much to be thankful for despite life’s trials and difficult times. A heart becomes grateful when it experiences the significance of the Love of Christ. A person develops a deeper appreciation for the life he or she has been given, even amidst difficulties.
Gratefulness is a very powerful energy in a person and adds an immeasurable quality to one’s life. Out of a grateful heart comes a deeper and ever growing awareness of the importance of appreciating everyday life. An Estonian Proverb says, “Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
So what keeps us from having a grateful heart? A lack of an appreciative mind and heart is the obvious answer. But, what is creating an ungrateful spirit within us? Well there may be a myriad of things happening in our lives that make it hard to have a grateful heart. Maybe you feel justified to have an angry heart, a bitter heart, a sad heart or a lonely heart. These feelings come and go within all of us at all times (though some more than others). However, these are conditions of the heart that are not healthy for us to maintain for any length of time. These heart conditions are threatening to our spirit, our mental health, our physical health and to our soul which is our deepest sense of self.
Out of a grateful heart comes a deeper and ever growing awareness of the importance of appreciating everyday life
The Christian must expect to be jostled by trials on the Christian path. All kinds of experiences will come to us. There will be the test of sorrows and the disappointments which seek to take our faith away. There will be the test of seduction which seek to lure us from the right way. There will be the tests of dangers, the sacrifices, and the unpopularity with the world, which the Christian life so often involve. But they are not meant to make us fall; they are meant to make us soar. They are not meant to defeat us; they are meant to be defeated. They are not meant to make us weaker; they are meant to make us stronger. Therefore we should not bemoan them; we should rejoice in them. The Christian is like the athlete. The heavier the course of training he/she undergoes, the more he is glad, because he knows that it is fitting him all the better for victorious effort.” Therefore do not be deterred by circumstances but always have a grateful heart for them and you will rise despite it all.
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