Open-handed Gratitude

One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp is a best selling book.  Many, MANY have read it and been changed by its message.  I have resisted.  I have resisted because I am prone to resistance.  I am known to resist the new and the popular at times.  Why?  Who knows.  Chalk it up to whatever makes most sense to you and call it a day.  What matters is that whatever wall I had built up around this book and whatever reasons I had that were keeping me from receiving its message are now gone.  Today, Ann released on her blog the first 20 minute video that will be a part of a DVD set that will be available to help small groups process One Thousand Gifts together.  I watched it.  I now "get it."  I had to let Ann know.

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Go to Ann's blog to watch the video.  It is moving and poignant and refreshing.  I'm looking forward to seeking out the 1,000+ gifts that God has given and continues to give in my life and naming them.