Confession #4: I am not near as grateful as I ought to be

So, again today I prepare in my mind as to what I will write, and again, I am led in a different direction. I left this afternoon to run errands. I got a few miles from home and came upon an accident. A smushed (yes I said smushed) pick up truck in between two other pick up trucks. I have no idea how they got positioned the way they did but at any rate I was thinking to myself, "Thank God it wasn't me". Another mile or so down the road another accident. "Odd" I thought, and again said to myself "thank the Lord it wasn't me then either". When I finished running errands and headed back the police were just getting to each accident and working on directing traffic around the two scenes... I proceeded on around and when I got close to home again...low and behold ANOTHER accident..."what in the world is goin' on today?", I said to myself out loud. Then I said, again out loud, "Lord thank you for protecting me".

At that moment another realization, so simple and obvious, yet why do I not practice it??

I felt at that moment the need to then begin to thank God for everything. Yes, I know...a little overboard, what can I say. Conviction hits me and I want to go back and change it all.... fortunately it's not completely necessary. As I was rattling things off in my head, thanking God, for this and that and the other, it was like a nudge, "just chill you spaz" (again talking to myself, as I'm pretty sure God wouldn't call me a spaz!) I began remembering one of my college professors telling us "your convictions are not my convictions, God will deal with you in areas when you are ready and me the same, but it doesn't mean there is a cookie cutter for everyone". And so it dawned on me... I don't need to go back and thank God for everything in my life one by one, I need to go forward from here, thanking God each day for the things I have, things He protects me from, things He guides me thru...I need to thank Him for revealing all of the things He has done, be grateful and continue to press on!!

And so a simple lesson learned today...how to be grateful. Thank you Lord for all you do, even when I don't think I see it, don't want to see it, or see and just forget to say thank you!!! :)