We NEED AOG!

Let the peace that Christ gives control your thinking, because you were all called together to be united as one body to have peace. Always be thankful!

Colossians 3:15

There is a question I hear quite often, especially of late: "What do I have to be grateful for?"  Have you ever said that?  Perhaps not out loud, but I'll wager every one of us has, at one time or another, had that same question in mind.

I challenged you to spend the next 30 days learning to be grateful.  How's that going?  It's fairly to list the things for which we are grateful when they are the usual things like "I'm grateful for my family" or "I'm grateful that we have food to eat."  But once we run through those, what are you grateful for?  Because it's those things we struggle to think of for which we should be truly grateful.

Try some of these on for size:

     1.  I'm grateful for that co-worker who talks to me so much I get a headache, because they need to share and God put me in the listening line.

     2. I'm grateful for that neighbor who is SO loud and plays their music so loud I can tell when they are exiting the interstate to come home, because that means I can hear.

     3.  I'm grateful for people who challenge my beliefs because it forces me to re-think and prove to myself why I truly believe what I believe.

     4.  I am grateful for that person who keeps stealing my lunch because God is using me to give them something to eat that they may not have to bring from home.

     5. Here's one that's I've been struggling with for many years: I'm grateful for that driver in front of me who seems to not understand what the gas pedal is for, because God is using this to slow me down and give me time to think.  Instead of getting upset, I should use this time to pray or sing praises to God.

     6. I am grateful for that person in church who sings very loudly and off key, because they draw my attention to the words of the song even more and the meaning becomes more clear.

How about it?  What kind or weird things can help us develop a TRUE A.O.G. (Attitude Of Gratitude).