Our society tells us we need more, more, more. From every direction we are bombarded with the message that don't have and that we aren't enough. These are not messages that I want filling the minds and hearts of my girls.
And so we have join with others to do a little something to help readjust our focus. We take some direction from the book of Psalms and "Give thanks to the Lord" for our many blessings.
Each morning, during the month of November, we sit at our breakfast table and write on a "leaf" something for which we are thankful. It may be something that seems little and insignificant. Or it could be "ginormous". But it represents something for which our individual hearts feel gratitude.
We share them with each other and then hang them on the door and watch our tree of gratitude grow.
And as the Christmas advertisements and commercials start telling us that we don't have enough, that we aren't adequate if we don't have _________, we are able to look over and be reminded of how incredible blessed we are.
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