Good day to you all and peace. My sons went back to there mums a couple of hours ago. So now its just me and the Buster here. So as its quiet now how about some reflection on the above title by Margaret Mitton, an ecumenical Christian. She devotes herself to writing and helping other on their own journey. Margaret sounds like a woman after my own heart, which is the heart of jesus!
Gratutude
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you, Constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confiednt of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.
Image what a difference it would make if, every time we remembered someone for whom we are grateful, we were to express that gratitude in some way, either directly or indirectly, in word or in deed. Gratitude helps us to recognise how much we owe to others and, ultimately, to God.
Even when we realize too late how grateful we are to those who have gone before us, we can still express that gratitude by passing on a word of appreciation and affirmation to those who are close to us now. We can `pay forward` the kindness in this way when we cannot `pay it back`. When we give thanks to God for the food on our tables, for example, we cannot thank all those who have helped to put it there, but we can ask God that the energy it gives us might be used for the benefit of others.
Today Paul tells his friends in Philippi that every thought of them is a prayer of thaksgiving. If we, too, could live like this, we would be like fireflies, constantly emitting sparks of gratitude into the darkness. Eventually, and collectively , this would turn the darkness into light. The spark of gratitue that each of us expresses leads us all a little closer to a world made radiant by the light of God.
Reflection
A word of gratitude spreads into a pool of love, its ripples
reaching those we may never meet. Is ther someon for whom
you want to thank God, today?
Okay now the time is getting on and Im a thinking that the Buster will have to go out again soon. Its twenty past eight in the evening. Sunday still here in Luton, England and yep that is the Luton, England on planet earth, not the Luton, England on planet Bling in the incredulous rich galaxy of infinate stupidity. Though I do know how some beings looking only at the earths leaders and track record get us mixed up. So in peace and good faith I am sighning off (is this a new word sighed the artist readying his self to leave the key bored.) Joke lang. (lang one of my favorite filipino words.) Never give up on God, but if you so its not the end, as he still wont give up on you. Bye to all who follow my blogs, especially my followers, three. A trinity!
Your brother of Christ, Peter
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