Journal Your Way to a Grateful Heart
Learn how jotting down your daily blessings can improve your relationship with God.
But true praise is a worthy sacrifice; this really honors me.
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—Psalm 50:23
The personal journal I’ve kept for nearly thirty...
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Journal Your Way to a Grateful Heart
Learn how jotting down your daily blessings can improve your relationship with God.
But true praise is a worthy sacrifice; this really honors me.
.
.
.
—Psalm 50:23
The personal journal I’ve kept for nearly thirty years began as a challenge.
I’d been grumbling about
my circumstances, so a friend suggested I write down one thing, every single day, for which I was
truly thankful.
Even though the first entries were simple, it sometimes took me quite awhile to write,
“Thanks, God, for a good night’s sleep” or “I praise You for keeping us safe during the hail storm.
”
Later, I began to praise God for answered prayer: “Thank You for Patrick’s finding just the right
job .
.
.
for guiding the doctor’s hand during my neighbor’s eye surgery .
.
.
for giving me the right
words for today’s speech.
” Gradually the journal became a record of my walk with God.
Looking
back, I clearly saw His guiding hand, His presence and His leading in every circums
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