30 Days of Gratitude

Psalm 25:21, ‘Use all Your skill to put me together; I wait to see Your finished product (MSG).’

Day 29 * Just Grateful: Warmly or deeply appreciative of kindnesses or benefits received; indebted and beholden

I’ve spent my whole life trying to either decipher me or avoid me, Father. ‘Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting (Ps 139:23-24, NIV).’ That’s what happened when I surrendered and met You for real. My search was over because I allowed Yours to begin. I don’t have to try to like me anymore, and I am learning, the greatest gift I can give to those who care for me is to love myself. It has been impossible for all these years to accept that You, that others, love me just as I am; there’s no need to prepare a plastic perception with which to enhance other’s affection toward me. You ask of me to be transparent, be real, before You, and You will do the rest, as You work on my heart. Your Stamp of Approval means everything, my Born-On Date a quiet testimony as others, I pray, see You in me. O God, may the fractures from my past attempts at living let Your light shine through so I reflect Your residency within me.

‘My heart overflows with praise to you, God, and for your promises, I will always trust you. So I’m thanking you with all my heart, with gratitude for all you’ve done. I will do everything I’ve promised you, Lord. Psalm 56:11-12 (TPT).’