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I quote:
In all circumstances, give thanks,
for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.
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Today's readings are focused on our absolute need to offer our thanks for all the benefits we receive, including those bitter lessons that wake us out of our easy willingness to believe that we are self entitled to all that makes our life's journey a self indulgent endeavour.
One fine day a wake up call disturbs our sense of self deserveness with anger, and frustration reducing us to wallowing in a pit of despair.
It is then that we begin to understand what it is to need assistance lifting us out of our desperate circumstances.
Being grateful to Our Father for our life's gifts is not just a matter of words offering our thanks.
The Father invites us to enter into a loving relationship with Him, whereby we become His outreach into the lives of those He introduces to us.
Our rewards are blessed by Our Father when we freely choose to share our life's blessings,
with those who sit at our side supping at The Father's banqueting table.
"You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God." ~ Corinthians 9:11
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