I’m not so good at thanking God.
It’s not that I’m not grateful
for what I have –
or don’t have.
But when something good happens,
I don’t always attribute it to Him.
Probably because if I did, I think
I would also attribute
everything bad that happens to Him,
because He is in charge of everything.
He is God, after all.
Instead, I just do some of both.
I also tend to play out
too many possibilities
for what is and
what could happen.
Positive outcomes are possibilities, of course,
or else the scenarios wouldn’t be realistic.
And even though Jeff would disagree,
I am a realist. (I think.)
But realistically,
most things in life don’t end
positively.
Most good endings
are fictional.
Regardless of the outcomes,
I should give thanks
to the God
who made those possibilities exist
in the first place.
I shouldn’t need a day to remind me to be thankful.
And I won’t bore anyone
with my list of things –
partly because when other people do them,
it doesn’t help me
be any more thankful for anything, and
partly because those lists
(mostly) annoy me.
Instead, I will just remind myself
again
to thank God
for what He has done and will do –
even though my eyes and
ears and
thoughts and
feelings
add up to reason
and
not to faith.
