Sunday, October 9, 2016
GIVING THANKS DAILY
GIVING THANKS DAILY
In today's GOSPEL
We read in Luke
About Jesus' healing of ten lepers
In an unnamed village
WHERE people lived in isolation
SUFFERING from leprosy
On of the ten-a SAMARITAN
At that-comes back to say
“THANK YOU”
Jesus asked,
'Were not all ten cleansed?
Where are the other nine?
Has no one RETURNED to
GIVE PRAISE to God
Except this foreigner?'” Luke 17:17-18
WHEN things go wrong in our life-
When we are beset by health problems-
By financial problems-by relationship
Issues-how quick we all ARE-
To CRY OUT to our God and Jesus
How many of us RETURN to Jesus and God
To say-”THANK YOU”
When our prayers are ANSWERED?”
EVERY ONE of us should
Say thank you to God
For our lives
And the BLESSINGS we have received
These ten lepers BEGGED for Jesus' help-
And his compassionate heart RESPONDED
And they were HEALED from this
Painful-contagious disease
I for one could NOT
Go on with my illness
Without Jesus' help and I
GIVE THANKS DAILY
Do you GIVE THANKS to
God and Jesus DAILY
For your life-
And all of your BLESSINGS?
“LET the message of Christ
DWELL among you richly
As you teach and admonish
One another
With all wisdom through psalms-
Hymns-and songs from the SPIRIT
Singing to God
With GRATITUDE in your hearts” Colossians 3:16
GIVING GRATITUDE and thanks
To God and Jesus daily
For everything in your life
I DO!-do you?-even my problems
The breath of LIFE sustains me-
SUSTAINS you
I am SURE all ten
Of the lepers-must have had
FEELINGS of thanks to Jesus
But ONLY ONE-voiced them
We RECEIVE God's abundant blessings too
And I am sure you feel as GRATEFUL
To God and Jesus as I do=He
WANTS to hear from you-
VOICE THEM!
“I will give thanks
To the Lord
Because of his righteousness
I will SING the praise
O the name
Of the Lord MOST HIGH” Psalm 7:17
“GIVE thanks to the Lord
For he is GOOD
His LOVE endures forever” Psalm 107:1
GIVING THANKS DAILY
I KNOW in my own case
There is NO LIMIT-as to what
I have to GIVE thanks for
The MIRACLES of my life
MY immediate family-my extended family-
My friends-and MY CHURCHES
I THANK the LORD for ALL of you-
You have been so GOOD & KIND to me
Thanking GOD-and-ALL of you-
EVERYDAY=
In Jesus' name
Robert P. Wallman
10-8-16
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. James McKARNS
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