Giving Thanks: Finding Grace In Difficult Times #shorts

Lesson Transcript

For some reason, due to COVID stuff, we weren't meeting. And this really hit home to me that I needed to start giving thanks for things that had been extremely difficult and painful in my life. And there's something that happens when you do that. It's not—it's not fun. It doesn't look dignified. It's pretty messy.

But there's something that happens about my relationship with God, about these things He allows in my life, whether it's terrible abuse or whether it's just the fact that my mower didn't start and I need to mow my grass. I stopped wrestling with God and being frustrated and upset about it and feeling like I should have something better. And I start softening myself and I say, "God, thank you for this."