The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Thanksgiving creates abundance.