I've been thinking a lot about gratitude lately, and after reading Keren's most recent post it came to mind again.
Grateful. Graceful. Full of grace. I wonder, sometimes, how grateful God is. Maybe God is gratefulness becuase God is graceful, full of grace.
It's almost too much to imagine...God being grateful. God saying "thank you." Not that God needs to be grateful or owes us any word of thanks. It's just that God's overflow of grace (it seems to me) would abound with gratitude for our companionship, our friendship, our love. And just maybe God's gratitude is expressed through us as we express our gratitude gracefully.
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1 comment:
Kevin, you are on to a part of what Ive been trying to articulate....I think..maybe
Grace full Gratitude and the Gratitude is reciprocal.
Musing some here: Before we are even born God gives us all sorts of things to use in this life including a desire for us to reconnect with Him.
We access all this through faith. To me faith has been just a word I use to indicate I "believe" . Consicously Using that faith in tough situations is a different story.
Up until recently I have "talked myself" into things, gutted-up as my Mom used to say, and then giving credit to God. Now I am "pracitising" the idea that God really really wants to do more for me, wants me to feel peace while he does the work. Wants me to uproot myself (from fear and being stuck) and move me into a beautiful new place. Why would I think otherwise?
I am so grateful, on my knees grateful, I want to do more and more for God (His people/all reation). His "gratitude" is perhaps his delight in knowing the reconnection has been made, I have remembered why I am here in the first place. So I receive more grace. Not money, not good health, not fame or things of this world...but Grace.
Peace and Love
Keren
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