GRUMBLING OR GRATEFUL:

[MW Couch]

BIBLE MEDITATION:
Psalm 100:4 - "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with
praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name."

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
A preacher who was traveling by train noticed two other passengers, a
well-dressed man and a magnificently dressed woman with expensive jewelry. The
woman was complaining about everything -- the train ride, the weather, the news,
the food, the service. The preacher decided to engage this couple in a
conversation. He asked the man what kind of business he was in and the man told
him. Then he asked, "What does your wife do?" He said, "Oh, she's in the
manufacturing business. She manufactures her own unhappiness." There are a lot
of people like that. They manufacture their misery because they fail to be
grateful. Only Christ can turn our lives around and stir up a grateful heart
within.

ACTION POINT:
Go through the alphabet and be thankful for something that begins with each
letter.