"Give THANKS" project

We decided to do this "Give THANKS" project with our pastorate that we lead (small group in our church....ours is pretty much a HUGE group....but we are working on that :)  Anyway, this was our sample that we used to encourage any singles, couples, families of our pastorate to intentionally "give thanks" everyday by writing or drawing their thanks to God on an index card and putting it in their bag.  We meet this Sunday and plan to have some people share some of their cards.

It has been very beautiful for our family.  It reminded us of how we need to intentionally train our hearts to exercise certain disciplines...one of which is gratitude.  Our hearts don't necessarilly know how to do it.  We need to train our hearts and allow it to practice it.  And we need to help train our kids' hearts too.  Your perspective changes and therefore sets your day in a much better direction....focusing on what God is doing for you and for those around you and basically just who HE is.  It has also been funny too to hear the kids "thanks" each day.  We have gotten "babydolls", "muscles", "legs", "Jesus fighting the bad guys", and lots of "daddy"s from Gena :)  Highly recommended project!!!