Love, Henri J. M. Nouwen, and I Thessalonians 2:13 (Everyday Thanks #29)

Today, I am thankful for the ability to love.

Our quote of thanks is from Henri J. M. Nouwen. He said, "Gratitude... goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy."

Our Bible verse of thanks is I Thessalonians 2:13. It reads, "For this cause also, thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe."

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