As I just added to the Thankfulness Therapy webpage is something I personally practiced for many, many YEARS. However, with the increased depression and the dangerous medication offered (due to not going to our Physician to receive His balm), I "officially" added this to my daily 2Do tasks, adding it to my iPhone's daily reminder that I do before I do anything else.
Sometimes my Best Friend reminds me to thank Him the moment I wake up, and sometimes I just find I am thanking Him. But should I forget, I have my reminders, put down my phone, close my laptop or iPad, and begin "counting my blessings, naming them one-by-one, remembering what the Good Lord has done."
Even though I tried to engage each of my granddaughters to "officially" join me in thankfulness therapy, which failed, HLM to do it myself. Now, after practicing it for many weeks, I am committed to simply texting one or more of my three teenage granddaughters what I am thankful for. If you'd like to join us, start the week by commenting below or our blog or on the Thankfulness Therapy webpage.
To start this off, HLM to text each one asking my Husband, their Grandfather, what to say:
"I'm so thankful you're in my life, Mercy!!" AND within a minute, she texted back, "I'm so thankful you're in my life, too, Mimi! 😊
"Star, I’m so thankful you're in my life!! You’re my Bestie forever!!" AND a few minutes later, Star texted back, "Awwww!!! Mimi you’re the sweetest!!!! You’re the best thing that could ever happen to me!! I’m literally tearing up right now!! 💗💗💗
wLL83 “What Should I Say?” ☊
When I was desperate and broken, it was not easy to find one thing to be grateful for, but I committed to finding at least one thing each day to be grateful for, just saying thank you for the new day and for my health. As time went by and my heart started to heal, I was able to add more and more things each day. Having a Thankfulness Journal also helped me a lot, being able to write it down and to see how my list grew each day.
When my children and I read the bible, I ask them to name one thing they are grateful for. They also struggled in the beginning, but now they can name a few things easily each day.
Wow, what beautiful fruits from the seeds of gratitude you have planted! I’ve been giving thanks daily, and I see how my list of thanks and blessings grows every day, which is proportional to the joy reflected on my face because I can feel and see His constant and persistent blessings in my life. It’s simply wonderful therapy, because He is!
Like your granddaughters, I am grateful to my Beloved for your life because thanks to your testimony, today I meet the love of my life!
Thank you for sharing your testimony Adina, it’s been added to help confirm and grow this truth.
I am typing this through tears now – because through this thankfulness therapy our precious Beloved Lord also brings healing. Me and my dad always had a close dad and daughter relationship and then he had a stroke and he just changed and suddenly I felt I lost my dad. But I forgot one thing, I just needed to be thankful. After reading this post I send my dad a message telling him how thankful I was that he was my dad and he sent me such a beautiful message back how he loves me😭
This post really touched my heart tonight! Even the message I got back from my niece that said she so much needed to hear that and while sending all the text messages to my family and getting beautiful thankful messages back, our precious Beloved Lord let me realize, it doesn’t just bring healing to others but to us too.
I am also here in tears, reading your beautiful sharing about how He has guided you to write to your granddaughters. It reminded me of when I worked outside the home, and almost every day I would go to work and leave a message for Brincy, handwritten on a piece of notebook paper, reminding her how happy and grateful I was to the Lord for having her in my life, and how much I loved her. This awakened in me the desire to do this again, since now I stay at home, and she leaves for school, but I know that this can bring another special moment for both of us, which will also result in more moments of intimacy with Him, because our grateful heart leads us to grow in intimacy and love for Him.