In the past year or so I have noticed something within my family, myself included.  When we are greedy for more we lose sight of being grateful for what we already have or received. For example, my youngest redhead and one of her BFF's get the spend almost every Saturday together because we do home church together.  They are usually together a minimum of 5 hours.  One day a few months ago they had been together at least 7 hours and when we sounded the call for leaving in a few minutes they both went up in arms, begging and pleading for more time.  What ended up happening is they wasted the few minutes they had left with each other arguing with us parents about more time.  Not once did it occur to them to be grateful for the 7 hours they got.  They were simply greedy for more.  Or just yesterday my other daughter had to be picked up early from a youth leadership retreat that was important to her.  We had a commitment that couldn't be changed. ...

Weird right?  It is weird but here's another Gratitude Attitude in which I am taking something that is annoying and trying to put a positive spin on it.  Tonight we served at the shelter we come alongside once a month . Usually the residents there are cordial if not very happy and grateful.  But tonight we had some extremely ungrateful people which annoyed me to no end.  Some might argue that they are just so negative because of their circumstances.  I don't buy that excuse especially after having worked with homeless people for a few years now.  Anyway.  We had some really ungrateful people come through the line and then a few people after them would be someone overflowing with gratefulness.  I became super grateful for the grateful people. Their gratefulness overshadowed the ungratefulness of the others.  So I'm grateful for ungrateful people today because they remind me what ungratefulness looks, acts, and sounds like and that reminds me t...