2 Chronicles 29:31 · World English Bible
Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into Yahweh’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
Gratitude is the bravest orientation a person can take toward existence, and it has nothing to do with weakness dressed up as piety. Consider how much suffering existence contains, and the courage of thankfulness becomes clear.
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Gratitude is the bravest orientation a person can take toward existence, and it has nothing to do with weakness dressed up as piety. Consider how much suffering existence contains, and the courage of thankfulness becomes clear. To bring a thank offering is to say that despite everything, being remains a gift worth honouring. That stance steadies a man when the ground shakes.
Weigh the free heart. Compulsion produces obedience, but only the willing give more than they must. A person who offers thanks freely, when he could withhold, has chosen to meet life as an ally rather than an enemy. That choice changes how the whole world looks to him.
Clinical Psychology lens
What would change in me if I gave thanks on the days I least felt like it?
He said not to wish things were other than they are, but to want them as they come. Thankfulness is a trained stance toward reality, not a mood that arrives on good days.
In Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind he taught practice with no gaining idea, nothing to get out of it. An offering made with nothing to gain changes the one who makes it.
He wrote that gratitude is not what you feel after the gift but the thing that opens the hand to receive at all. Complaint closes the same hand.
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