A Thankful Life Thanksliving 2018. Encourage your spouse to live thankful with 365 days of noticing all the blessings the Lord provides in your life. As husband and wife, Rob and I are going to focus on being thankful – in all circumstances during 2018. THANKFUL will become our OneWord365. Thankful Life. Thanksliving.
I’ve been focusing on being thankful or grateful for the last months of the old year. We wrote a post on Lead Like Jesus about our thoughts on the words “thankful” vs “grateful” at Thanksgiving, and then the discussion between us continued. Two particular books left a significant impression and are shaping our ideas…
“365 Thank Yous ~ A Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed my Life” by John Kralik
To practice this art of being thankful THANKSLIVING – we are planning on sending a thank you note (either via snail mail or an e-card) every day of 2018. It’s a real challenge because I (Lori) am not good at things that are on-going. Rob’s going to encourage me. 😉 (That’s what John Kraliks book is about.) As the year progresses I’ll let you know the other things we will be doing for a thankful life THANKSLIVING.
To commemorate our year of living a thankful life THANKSLIVING – here’s a poem that expresses very well what 2018 could look like for Rob and me:
Thankful life. The art of thanksgiving… or thanksliving.
The Art of Thanksgiving
by Wilferd A. PetersonThe art of thanksgiving is thanksliving. It is gratitude in action. It is applying Albert Schweitzer’s philosophy: ‘In gratitude for your own good fortune you must render in return some sacrifice of your life for other life.’
It is thanking God for the gift of life
by living it triumphantly.It is thanking God for your talents and abilities
by accepting them as obligations to be invested for the common good.It is thanking God for all that men and women have done for you
by doing things for others.It is thanking God for opportunities
by accepting them as a challenge to achievement.It is thanking God for happiness
by striving to make others happy.It is thanking God for beauty
by helping to make the world more beautiful.It is thanking God for inspiration
by trying to be an inspiration to others.It is thanking God for health and strength
by the care and reverence you show your body.It is thanking God for the creative ideas that enrich life
by adding your own creative contributions to human progress.It is thanking God for each new day
by living it to the fullest.It is thanking God
by giving hands, arms, legs, and voice to your thankful spirit.It is adding to your prayers of thanksgiving acts of thanksliving.
Join us! Thankful Life Thanksliving.
Want to live a thankful life Thanksliving this year – regardless of your circumstances? Janice Kaplan, author of the Gratitude Diaries divided her year into areas in which to be thankful, including her marriage, food, money, things, health and more.
What would you focus on first in your life as husband and wife if you were going to be living a thankful life – THANKSLIVING?
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Hannah’s YEAR of Thanksliving! <- She did little “thank you notes” each day and put them in a container.
Crystal’s Blessings Jar – she’s using it to make note of all the blessings in her life.
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