Thank You

"What If You Woke Up Today With Only The Things You Thanked God For Yesterday?"

If you just read the quote above, think about it. Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning and look around your room. There is nothing in it, maybe just your warm bed and the sunlight coming through your windows. Then you go down the hallway and your house is dark, silent, and probably empty. Then you realize that only what you had said "Thank God for..." the day before is still left in your house.
God has blessed us with so much, and so much of it, we take for granted. Have you ever stopped and thought about how lucky you were to have:
~ a different set of clothes to wear each day?
~ five senses that make it so much easier to enjoy life?
~ a TV?
~ junk food like Skittles, Hershey chocolate bars, and potato chips?
~ books to read?
~ friends that love you even when you don't feel it?
~ a Mom and a Dad?
~ a house?
~ an iPod or MP3player?
~ a clock?

You don't fully realize how important something is to you until it's gone.

Ever since I began to realize how much I take for granted, I have been thanking God for everything that He has given me. I have friends that love me ALL over the world, there are people who pray for me every day, I have a warm bed to sleep in, I have a life, I have parents, siblings, my own computer, my own iPod, food, and my own Bible...
When things seem to be going perfectly for me, I still pray and thank God. Because he can easily take away all that is making me feel so happy if he believes I am being too greedy or not being thankful. Besides, He is the one who gave me every. :)
During this Christmas season, when you're opening up your presents or sitting in a warm house, remember there are people all around you who don't have as much as you. So be thankful and don't just take it all for granted.

And, REALLY think about it... "What If You Woke Up Tomorrow With Only The Things You Thanked God For Yesterday??"