How can we be thankful when life is so hard? Moments that Matter, Christian Questions

We often think of gratitude as an act of reciprocity – someone does something for us and we respond by being thankful. In a recent podcast we talked about how true gratitude can be expressed for many reasons. Take someone’s loyalty to us for example. True gratitude is more than a simple gesture of thanks. It is expressed in our transformed life actions. This kind of thanksgiving continually draws us up to a higher quality of life.

Now, pain and thanksgiving are not obvious partners, but they can be. As Christians it is our charge to rise to this higher kind of gratitude. 1 Thessalonians says “in everything give thanks.” It is telling us to grow into an attitude of life that is able to express thanksgiving through bad experiences. Thankfulness in the midst of pain and suffering is not natural or easy. Listen to a personal story of a woman who lives with chronic pain and has built thankfulness into this experience. How can you find thankfulness in your own difficult experiences?

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