You may have noticed I’ve been posting every day this week, leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. Well, despite the name of my site, I’ve rediscovered sharing daily is no easy task! Hat’s off to my excellent blogger friends out there who regularly do this.
Kind reader, I’m fresh out of ideas. So, here’s a guest post I wrote a few weeks back for Rainer Bantau–The Devotional Guy. If you don’t already follow him, please check out his site!
My wife and I enjoy a show on the Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV) called House Hunters. Each episode features would be home buyers working with a realtor to find their forever home.
Itβs fun to watch folks, from different stages and walks of life, ticking through their wish lists. However, there are times when βSkyβs the Limitβ thinking by a couple of twenty-somethings is a bit much.π
For example, there was the young wife who refused to consider any home with a chain link fence, because (to her) it made the outside of the house look like a prison yard. Or the couple who rejected a kitchen outright because it didnβt have high-end stainless-steel appliances.
I shook my head. When I was their age, I lived in a one-bedroom upstairs apartment and was glad to get it for $400 a month. Oh, and the neighbor across the hall cooked every meal with soy sauce.
Arenβt millennials grateful for anything!?
I spoke too soon. During an episode a week later, we were pleasantly surprised. Another young couple toured a house that seemed perfect for them. There was just one wrinkle: the washer and dryer were out on the screened in back porch. I thought for sure they would turn their noses up. But the young wife said, βI wouldnβt mind doing laundry out here. Growing up in Honduras, I walked down to the river to do the washing with my mother.β There goes my spoiled millennials theory.
Gratitude is connected to perspective
This is my take-away from the youthful Honduran housewife. For example, there are folks in hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico who are grateful for a couple of new tarps and fuel for the generator. Meanwhile, Iβm irritated when heavy rain blocks my satellite reception.
Here are a few of my favorite βgratitude in perspectiveβ scriptures.
βWatch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.β Jesus (Luke 12:15 β NIV)
βKeep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, βNever will I leave you; never will I forsake you.β Hebrews 13:5- NIV
“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 -NIV
Thank you for reading. πβ€οΈ prayers and love.
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