The Humility of Thankfulness

The modern American seldom pauses to give thanks for the simple blessings of life. One reason is that we are used to having so much. We simply assume ...

Thanks for the End of the Day

Every night my 6-year-old, Julie, and I thank God for one thing about the day. One evening Julie was breaking out in chicken pox, I had the flu, and my ...

Prayer: Giving as Well as Getting

Prayer is not simply to get things from God, but to make those things holy which already have been received from Him. It is not merely to get a blessing, ...

Prayer's Alchemy

Prayer makes common things holy and secular things sacred. It receives things from God with thanksgiving and hallows them with thankful hearts and devoted ...

Thanksgiving Casts Out Pride

To thank with all your heart is an art--an art which the Holy Spirit teaches. And you need not worry that the man who can really say "Deo gratias" ...

Giving Thanks Always

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open ...

To Think Is to Thank

Gratitude is from the same root word as "grace," which signifies the free and boundless mercy of God. Thanksgiving is from the same root work ...

Thankful for What?

We may acknowledge our Divine Provider over the roast and mashed potatoes, but how often are we deliberately thankful for the water from our taps? The ...

Recognizing the Hand of God

Bill McCartney was the head coach of the University of Colorado, and you avid football fans would know that the McCartney family has been through a great ...

The Power of a Prayer

In his book Living Life on Purpose, Greg Anderson shares the story of one man's journey to joy:

... his wife had left him and he was completely depressed. ...