Graceful Gratitude

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.