Grace-Filled Homemaking

How to Make Gratitude a Part of Everyday Living

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Gratitude is extremely important, yet it’s really only focused on during the holiday season. The truth is, we can live a life of gratitude long after the snow has melted. In our day-to-day lives, it can be hard to see our situations as something to be grateful for. No matter how rough life is, there is something to be grateful for every single day.

Make gratitude a part of life

 

Here are a few things you can do to start living a gratitude-filled life:

 

Write it Down

 Ann Voskamp’s book “A Thousand Gifts” was a total game-changer for me. I never knew the power of writing down my blessings. The challenge she gives her readers is to write down 1,000 gifts from God a year. That is equal to 3 blessings a day. Not that hard when you break it down! When you start recording your blessings, you can see God’s hand at work, even when it doesn’t feel like it. This is a great activity to get your kids involved in. Since this book came out there are so many awesome gratitude journals you can buy. For kids, this option from Crystal Paine is great! I personally just use a plain old notebook. 🙂
 
 

Get Everyone Involved  

   Make gratitude a family event by having each member say what they are thankful for a few times a week over dinner. Ask your family what they love about their lives, or what blessing they received today. Get those little minds thinking about what makes their life so blessed! Last Winter, my little guys and I made a blessing tree. A simple tree made of construction paper. We used leaf templates and wrote a certain blessing on each leaf. We decided to keep adding to it and we keep it up all year! 

 

 Create An Environment of Gratitude

 Make your home a peaceful haven where gratitude is always present. Play music that praises God or Scriptures. Put quotes around the house as reminders. Let your family hear you counting your blessings, and they will soon follow!
      
 

  Make It Fun!

 Make gratitude fun, not drudgery. Express your creative side, take pictures of what you’re grateful for. Make a collage, sew a needlepoint, paint pictures of blessings, or take a nature walk. Think out of the box on this one!


   Volunteer

 One of the best ways to get the gratitude ball rolling is to volunteer. Doing something for someone else makes you grateful for what you do have. It takes your mind off you and places the focus on making the life of someone else better. What can be more gratitude-inducing than that?

 
Gratitude is a choice that we have to make on a daily basis. Living a life of gratitude is being satisfied with what we have, and realizing the value of our lives. Make it a point to live satisfied and watch your life flourish.
 
 
 

                          

  
 
 

 

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