30 Days of Gratitude – Day 30:
Express gratitude to the friend, relative, or neighbor of your choosing.

[NOTE: There’s a HUGE announcement at the bottom of this post!]

Gratitude should not be a passive attitude; it should be a perpetual activity. As you complete your thirty days of intentionally expressing gratitude to others, my sincere hope and prayer is that on every day of the year, you will continue this pattern of demonstrating and expressing gratitude. The final verse for this thirty-day emphasis is 1 Thessalonians 5:18. I found it interesting to look in a few commentaries and see that the words “give thanks” came from the Greek word eucharisteo: “to be grateful, i.e., (actively) to express gratitude (toward).” Yes, we must always be grateful, but when we allow that gratitude to penetrate the moments of our daily lives, we will find that we also want to express that gratitude to those for whom we are thankful!

Take time to e-mail, call, purchase a gift for, or send a card to the friend, relative, or neighbor you chose to thank today.

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I am thrilled to announce the release today of a little book that takes these thirty days of gratitude and allows you to apply them any day of the year:

Petals of Gratitude: A Guide to Intentionally Expressing Gratitude for Thirty Days

Be sure to pick up an extra copy, because it will also make a great gift for those on your gift list! (Click on the book cover photo to learn more!)