A Thanksgiving Week Experiment Challenge
posted November 20, 2009 by jordan
Ephesians 5:4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
What would it look like if I ONLY spoke words of gratitude the Sunday through Saturday (one week) of Thanksgiving. If I went so far as to look at a pile of laundered clothes that awaits my folding and putting up, a job I normally hate, and instead think and speak out loud, “God, thank you for these clothes, for providing covering.” When my kids are arguing with one another, “God thank you that they have voices that work and you are shaping them towards independence of Piper and me, give them reliance on you.” If every time next week I see a person, I tell them why I am thankful to God they are in my life.
What would that week look like and feel like. I am going to try my best. I will post my successes (by God’s grace) and failures (by my own flesh) next week as time allows.
Care to join me?
November 20th, 2009 at 5:20 am
I’ll join ya and will pray for you and request you pray for me, too.
November 20th, 2009 at 5:48 am
We’re IN!!!!!
November 20th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Ok, I’m in to….lets so how it goes….
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Didn’t do so well w/this the first 6 hours of my day. However, the awareness was so great as each hour went by today. Awareness, acknowledgment, and acceptance of my shortcomings are the first steps in making a change. I found myself just choosing to simply say less for the rest of the day if what was about to come out of my mouth even hinted at being lamentations.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:42 am
I have really loved doing this. It has helped remind me what the Lord and I have been working on in me for years - a thankful heart. My thoughts have been captured and redirected. My speech has been silenced or transformed to build others up. Not perfect of course, but far better. I can even laugh at my ridiculous thoughts now and cast them away! Thank you Jesus!