Filled With Thanksgiving

The Couples For Christ Euro Conference was a great victory! It was was an awesome sight to see families from all over Europe come together to worship, have fellowship, and be nourished by teachings.

One highlight for me was when the families were offering roses to the cross. One by one a family member would come up on stage and offer a prayer while filling up the cross with a rose offering. It's such a wonderful symbol of God's people thanking the Lord of His sacrifice, suffering, and love for us. The cross was filled with thanksgiving!

Have we thanked the Lord enough? In a day, do we thank God for the blessings he has given us? A retreat master said, "if you are not in a habit of thanking God, you will notice that you complain about a lot of things." For me this is true. When the day is hot and I forget to thank God, i notice more of the discomfort the heat gives me, rather than thanking Him that there's no rain so I could do my tasks. And if something does not go as planned, we get easily dissapointed and start to rant, instead of thinking, "What could be your will Lord?"

Let us not forget to thank the Lord of at least three things today. My 3 year old son, Sev, would end the day by saying, "Thank you Lord for..." then he would mention all the people he remembers, all the cartoons he watched, all the food he ate, and even some things only he can understand. Let us be filled with thanksgiving (Col. 2: 7).