Contemplating Thanks

Can you believe that a week from today is Thanksgiving? It seems like autumn just started and now the holiday season is upon us! If you’re like me and find yourself covered over it can be so easy to let Thanksgiving come and go without a whole lot of contemplation about your gratitude. Oh, perhaps when everyone sits around the dinner table we’ll be asked to tell what we’re thankful for and then we’ll contemplate our blessings, but why not begin today? Here are a few suggestions to conjure up your gratitude to the Lord:

• Using a dry erase marker, make a list on the bathroom mirror for your husband/and or children to tell them why you’re thankful for them.
• Before dinner each night this week have everyone write down why they’re thankful for a particular family member, then read them before or after you eat.
• Spend your whole prayer time in praising God. Don’t ask Him for anything!
• Sit down and write a card to someone (or several) to tell them you’re thankful for them and why. Send it in the mail.
• Make a list of blessings in your prayer journal and keep adding to it all week.
• If you have small children give them construction paper leaves and write on each one something they’re thankful for. Make a tree in the hallway or their bedroom wall with the leaves.