#Day 60: 29 February 2016

ABOUT GRATITUDE

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

It is always easy to find fault in everything, to complain. From how bad our office is, how incompetent our boss is, how negative our community is, how small our house, how low our salary, how unattractive ourself is, how bad is the idea of fund raising, how this and how that.

It is the easy way, to let negativity comes first.

For me, personally, it is merely a simple form of unwillingness to take up responsibility. It is pushing away our responsibility to others, and expect others to solve it for us.

But I am not going to share about being responsible, that would be sharing for other time.

Today, I want to share about appreciation, about gratitude.

Sometimes I find it amusing that everyone is in agreement that: "nothing is perfect". But yet, we complain when things is not going according to our expectation rather than appreciate the imperfection.

Meister Eckhart once said "If the only prayer you said in your life was ... Thank You ... that would suffice.

How true and wise is that.

I am reminded about this today, about how we need to focus on gratitude along our new journey in finding new home for our church, our community.

Focus on His grace with the heart full of thankfulness, and always remember His promise that He will lead us to His green pastures.

Acts 24:3 - In every way and everywhere we accept this with all gratitude.

I pray and hope that all of us reading this, can always be filled with a heart full of gratitude in every seconds of our lives.

After all, negative does not always need to comes first. Again, I am grateful that I am able to participate on a new journey. The journey of finding new home for FGCC. 

I am also grateful that we are progressing with numbers of people touched by God for the promise of faith. Greatful to have the project team and many volunteers that joining this journey of faith.

Grateful for my job, my family, my community, my well being. 

Another day full of blessing.

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