One way to cultivate a grateful heart is to spend time in God's Word. Write it. Pray it. Memorize it. Sing it. Put it all over your home as reminders for your heart. Cultivate Print these verses! Choose 1 to memorize. Write one in your journal each day. Put them on notecards around your home. Use God's Word as a helpful tool to cultivate gratitude in your life. 20-verses-for-cultivating-gratitude-pdf Join our Facebook Group of Encouragement If you'd like to discuss this series, encourage ... Read More about 20 Verses for Cultivating Gratitude

How do we make something a habit? Something like gratitude? We create habits when we do them repeatedly. Some would say that it takes 21 days to make a habit. So, will you join me for the month of October to create a HABIT of gratitude? Cultivating this habit in our homes and in our hearts can truly transform our souls. More Reading on Creating Habits 18 Tricks to Make New Habits Stick - these are great! Start small, give it 30 days, make it daily, give yourself reminders...and much ... Read More about The Habit of Gratitude

I am challenging each of us to CULTIVATE GRATITUDE for the month of October. And beyond! In order to cultivate things in our lives, we need reminders. I need reminders. Index cards around our homes. Notes taped to our mirrors. Setting alarms on our phones. And wallpapers for our phones! Here are a few for you to use in the coming weeks as we seek to cultivate gratitude in our hearts and homes. Cultivate Save these pictures on your phone and choose one to be your wallpaper.  Then every ... Read More about Cultivating Gratitude Free Phone Wallpapers

While we are focusing on cultivating gratitude in our hearts & homes, memorizing Scripture is a GREAT way to begin to fix our eyes on Jesus and take every thought captive to Christ. This book that I'm reading, 40 Days to a Joy-Filled Life, is based on the passage from Philippians 4 that tells us what to think about. I'm choosing to memorize starting in verse 4, with rejoice in the Lord always...but you can choose whatever you'd like to memorize! The book reminds us that we have ... Read More about Memorize Philippians 4:4-9 with us!