If the world owes us something, then why be grateful when it comes our way?
Isn’t it true that gratitude is not necessarily the norm? By nature, human beings tend to be ungrateful. My mom used to always say: “As a rule, a man's a fool; When it's hot, he wants it cool. When it's cool, he wants it hot — always wanting what is not.”
“Give a man everything he wants,” Immanuel Kant is reported to have said, “and at that moment, everything will not be everything.”
But truly thanking God and thanking others changes us. My long-time pastor, Dr. D. James Kennedy, whose broadcast ministry just celebrated 50 years of operation, called the process of giving thanks “the Christian’s magic wand,” because gratitude will transform your life.
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