Gratitude is the only thing that has been found to actually increase your baseline happiness, called dispositional happiness. Other things, such as self-medication, will cause a temporary increase in happiness, but then you return to the baseline. But over time gratitude increases dispositional well-being, or happiness, permanently! What is biblical gratitude, and how can we be biblically thankful?
Gratitude is a worldview, but is it a secular worldview or a sacred one? If gratitude is so obviously good for us, emotionally and physically, why are we so ungrateful? And why are Christians who have so much to be grateful for as negative and as physically unhealthy as the godless? Biblical gratitude helps us […]
01_The Number One Reason to Be Grateful Read More »
Once, when wallowing in suffering and complaining to God, “Why me?”, He answered me with, “Why not you?” It was a sobering question that re-ordered my negative thinking toward thankfulness for all the terrible things I didn’t have that I could. That was when I realized it can always be worse, a reality I remind
02_Life Is a Benediction Read More »
According to the Scriptures, complaining and thanksgiving are both multipliers. Complaining multiplies scarcity, fear, futility, and purposelessness; while thanksgiving multiplies a few loaves and fishes to feed all who are present, with plenty left over. Thank you to my newest Friends of the Show, Jannifer S, and Carolyn McK, for loving and lifting me! Friends
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Gratitude is the only thing that has been found to actually increase your baseline happiness, called dispositional happiness. Other things, such as self-medication, will cause a temporary increase in happiness, but then you return to the baseline. But over time gratitude increases dispositional well-being, or happiness, permanently! Thank you to my newest Friends of the
04_How & Why Gratitude Heals Read More »
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