Giving Thanks in Advent: The Health of Gratitude

The problem with giving thanks is that we need someone to thank. In this episode, Hodges and Vowell discuss the importance of giving thanks and never more than for the gift of the Birth at Christmas. It seems even psychologists recognize the need human beings have for gratitude -- instead of complaining about the failings of...well...everything: family, job, country, the other political party, neighbors...perhaps we need to learn to be grateful for the good that we DO have. The family we were born into has given us much...the job we do can be done for the glory of God...the country we live in may have been the source of bad things, but do we take the good things about it for granted? What will it take for each of us to look for the good in whatever aspect of life we consider? Did you create yourself? Raise yourself? Did you find your friends, spouse, co-workers? Did you grow your own food? Build your own house? Install your own plumbing? Most of us have others to thank for those things. And all these things come from the Source, the One who spoke all things into existence. Thanks be to God.

Recommendations: GK Chesterton's A Short History of England, and Winston Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples.

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