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Being thankful isn’t always easy
In fact sometimes it’s downright hard
But the evangelists tell me it’s all just an attitude
Well, Grammy Jen tells me I have an attitude
And what’s more I should just get rid of it
So I’m a might confused about what I should do
~
Like yesterday
Momma told me to get to the wash
And I pounded and pounded to get Tommy’s jeans clean
That basket was like to tear my arms from my shoulders
But right in the middle of the yard
Little Bobby went scooting past on his wagon
I got my feet all tangled and down went the wash
All over that dirt yard
And I started to tremble something fierce
~
Momma whooped me plenty for being so careless
And I had to pound those clothes extra hard this time
Every time I pounded those clothes
I pretended I was pounding some gratitude in there
It helped take my mind off the whooping
But it didn’t make me feel any better
~
Later when I was helping Momma with dinner
Tommy told her I tore his jeans
He only has one good pair cos he’s always tearing them
So she whooped me some more with the big old spoon
For being so careless with Tommy’s jeans
I know it wasn’t Christian like but I snuck a bug
On his plate of squirrel stew
He never noticed and I figured God would understand
It’s sure hard to be thankful when it seems like it’s always my fault
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I figure if I keep being thankful
Even when it’s always my fault
Maybe eventually all my daily ‘ thankfulness’
Might fill the biggest old barn around
And then instead of all that whooping
I might get a barrel full of hugging
To make it all worthwhile
~
But Grammy says it don’t work like that
She says, “Girl just fill yourself with gratitude,
Don’t worry about all that attitude,
God’s watching all we’re doing, and girl you’re doing just fine,
So go on now and sneak down to the river and play
Momma’s gone for the rest of the day.
And Tommy’s out after squirrels,
I’ll look after little Bobby and today we’ll both
Get our fill of thankful and gratitude
And I’ll see that sweet smile of yours for a while”
~
So I ran down to the river and swam for hours and hours,
Lay on the grass and watched the angels in the clouds
And I could feel all that thankful and gratitude Granny told me of
And I knew that everything was going to be alright
Because I could see my road stretching far away
On God’s beautiful highway.
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“Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.”
― John Henry Jowett
Thankfulness and gratitude are used almost interchangeably. For those things we are giving thanks for, we are expressing our gratitude for. There is no need to become bogged down in the correct terminology, if we are looking at life, at our day and being grateful or thankful for the good things which happen, then we are doing all the right things to make our world a better place.
Focus on the good things, no matter how small and more of those good things are magnetised towards us and life can become a wondrous place. It’s that easy – just remember that like attracts like.
May your days be filled with thankfulness and gratitude.
Blessings, Susan x
© Susan Jamieson 2013
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