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WHEN WE GIVE THANKS ALL DAY EVERY DAY,
EVERY DAY IS A DAY FILLED WITH MIRACLES
[adapted from
The God of Miracles]
God
loves when we're grateful. During thanksgiving we are expressing love for
Him. We are close to Him. We are brought into His Plan. When we thank God,
we are stepping out of ourselves and into His power.
Have you gone back through the entire year,
reviewing what you sought in prayers and thanking Him?
That makes a world – a universe – of
difference. Miracles are often instant and big when we go to Him, thank
Him in advance, and don't force things.
Too often, we get an idea and push for it
despite gut feelings. We shouldn’t do that. We should respect the
intuition that God gave to us. Get in touch with your deepest
inclinations. Those are your signposts. There you will find His still,
small voice (1 Kings 19:11-18). If we’re honest, we know there are
countless times when we sense that the Lord may want something but forge
ahead with what we want. We convince ourselves that something is right
when in our hearts we know that it isn’t right, and in this way we
force matters to fit when they don’t. Most failures are the result of
jamming our ideas into a situation that requires a different course of
action, and the fruit of forcing anything is breakage.
We break things. Sometimes, it is even
disaster. Take a key that does not go with a lock and it won’t open the
door. The fruit of forcing something is blockage.
God answers only those prayers that will
accrue to our eternal benefit.
Thank Him for the times He didn't
give you what you wanted because it would have been bad for your soul (in
ways you could not imagine)!
True, there are also
times when we’re blocked because we’re doing the right thing and it
is the enemy stymying us. But most of the time we are wasting our
time when we push one way despite signs pointing in the other direction.
How do we tell the right course? How do we
discern the "signs"? A feeling of tranquility is a benchmark. When
something is "right" for us, when it fits in God’s Plan, we feel at peace.
Only when we die will we see that a
mechanic can be as important in God’s plan as a senator or a laborer as
crucial as a world-famous writer.
Perhaps the best example is a housewife:
she has a tremendous influence on her children, and so down through the
generations – as the descendants geometrically multiply – she could end up
affecting hundreds of thousands of people at a level that even the
president of the United States can not affect them. (There was a couple
who landed at Plymouth Rock and is now thought to have three million
descendants.)
The feeling of peace
usually is accompanied by the lifting of our spiritual blinders. We
begin to see the spiritual reasons for all that occurs around us. It’s
like stepping backstage, and it comes in a special way through fasting,
deep prayer, and the sacraments.
During Communion -- which means
communication, and during which we should offer deepest thanksgiving --
Christ often communicates what He expects from us. The Lord wants us to be
humble, accomplish our duties according to our stations in life, and be
open to His inspiration. Every inspiration, every good thought, is a
miracle. They let you know or "feel" which decisions are right and which
are wrong, according to your purpose in life. A decision that's not in
God’s Will oppresses, binds, worries, and causes you to second guess.
Always be on the lookout for uneasiness. Other hallmarks are anxiety,
vacillation, and confusion, which signify that for some reason the Lord is
distant. As soon as you sense confusion, you should stop deciding whatever
you’re deciding and go to the Lord until the confusion lifts.
If you start by doing
that, you'll begin to invoke God on a more frequent basis. He'll
become more involved -- and the involvement of God is the involvement of
the supernatural.
"There are two ways to live your life,"
goes the saying. "One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is."
[resources:
The God of Miracles and
Christmas specials]
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