When I received Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy by Nancy Leigh DeMoss free to review it for Moody Publishers, I expected it to be just another book about being thankful. But it's really so much more!This is a book about being grateful in all things... not the happy blessings of life, but the hard-to-handle tragedies that we face. Not the "I'm thankful that you're teaching me through this, Lord," but "I'm thankful for this... for this sickness... for this financial ruin... for this...[insert your own tragedy here].
It's not something we want to even consider, let alone attempt to do.
But DeMoss shows us how tightly woven the theme of gratitude and giving thanks in all things is with the gospel message we love. And she helps us discover how we can be grateful and give thanks in all things.
Joni Eareckson Tada wrote the foreward in the book. And for someone who has faced the trials that she has to be able to recognize that God is bigger than our trials and heartaches--when her trials and heartaches seem so much more severe than mine!--I have to at least try to understand the message of this book. I don't know that I fully "get" it... but I see the need for it. I believe you will, too.
Definitely one worth reading.
Purchase Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy.
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