It's the month of Thanksgiving here in the USA.  A trend for several years on Facebook has been to post a thankful every day of the month.  A few years ago I participated in that and it was interesting to see how my tendencies to post a status that wasn't so thankful sounding were squelched in light of giving thanks. It feels a little like a mystery to me, this gratitude attitude truly impacting my thoughts, emotions, words, my behavior even.  And it isn't conscious. In fact some days I have to sit and really think about what I was grateful for. But when it comes to me I immediately recognize that, yes, I am grateful for that thing or that person on that day.  And it changed my interactions that day without me being fully aware of it. Gratitude truly does color my attitude.  And yours too when you allow it.  Have you been participating in having a gratitude attitude? If so, I'd love to hear how it's changed your perspectives on your days, your relationship...

Ours is an active faith.  It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.   Nancy Leigh DeMoss Nouns are cheap, the worth of something is found in verbs.  (In case you aren't getting it because it's a Monday morning that's a play on the phrase 'talk is cheap'...light bulb moment right?!?)  Faith is unappealing, unattractive, dull, and pretty useless unless it is turned from a noun into a verb.  I love today's thought by DeMoss.  It immediately appealed to me when I read it. Faith isn't supposed to just sit on the sidelines of life (or in the pews of a church) and proclaim it is faith.  It is meant to go out and live loudly among the world in which we reside.  Faith is action, not passivity.  Faith has arms and legs, hands and feet, a beating heart, eyes that see, ears that hear, a mouth to speak and sing.  Faith is very active, it isn't a noun but it is a verb. How's your faith?  Is is a noun or a ...