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What the World Needs Now<\/h3>\n

Sure, the world needs love, but seriously what the world needs now is more people with grateful attitudes. I’m afraid we’ve become complainers, at least in this country. I’m challenging myself to look for the good no matter what. I’ve faced some tough situations, and am currently facing some, but they aren’t things I can change, so I try to talk myself into focusing on what’s good about these things. Or at least, what good can be found.<\/p>\n

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Making the Decision<\/h3>\n

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“If we think that impressive food, decorations, and presents constitute celebration, we will miss out on an important spiritual practice that will draw us toward the joyful heart of God.”~Deeply Loved by Keri Wyatt Kent<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I took way more than 40 days to finish a 40 day devotional called Deeply Loved<\/em><\/strong> by Keri Wyatt Kent. But the important thing is I did finish it, today, two days before Thanksgiving. The last \u00a0chapter was titled Celebration and she spoke about Thanksgiving. I wrote down in my journal a couple of things she said that spoke to me. (I started this post a few days before I read this chapter. A coincidence that I was thinking about these things and then read this? Probably not.)<\/p>\n

“…celebration is not restricted to times when everything is going perfectly.”<\/p>\n

The quote above reminds me of The Grinch.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
\nstood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.\u201d
\n\u2015\u00a0Dr. Seuss<\/a>,\u00a0How the Grinch Stole Christmas!<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the celebration will come, how I respond is up to me. Keri drove that point home in Deeply Loved when she wrote:<\/p>\n

“By choosing to be grateful, to celebrate and be joyful, we begin to feel thankful for what we do have, and to transform our attitude about life’s challenges. The discipline of celebration ushers in joy.”<\/p>\n

#Feelinggrateful!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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