Even if you are NOT a reader I have a book that I guarantee will lighten your heart and bring a smile to your face. No, I’m not selling a book. In fact, I only have one copy and there is no way you are getting mine.

If you want to be happier every day, even in the midst of a pandemic, you must get this little inexpensive book. I guarantee it will change your life in just 30 days – or less. Oh, and, it is NOT the Bible, though I highly recommend that one for a changed life, too.

The book I’m talking about is a simple journal. But you’re going to turn it into something very special– A Gratitude Journal. Each evening, before you drop off to sleep, write down one thing you are grateful for. (If you want to be hyper-happy, write down three things.) Then, as you drop off to sleep, spend your last waking hour thanking the Lord for that thing you listed. There’s nothing like an attitude of gratitude to fill us with joy and contentment.

The reason I say it might take up to 30 days before this book begins to infect you with happiness is because for the first week to 10 days you’ll be saying the standard things. “I’m grateful for my family.” “I’m grateful for my health.” “I am grateful for my salvation.”

But after about a week you’re going to have to start really thinking to find something fresh and new to be grateful for. That’s when we begin to delve into being grateful for things we normally take for granted. And that’s where the secret of true happiness and contentment comes from.

Go to your local Dollar Store and get a cheap journal or visit a fancy stationery store and get a nice leather-bound one. Either one will work if … if you actually use it for the next 30 days.

Have a Grate-full day!
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Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Ephesians 5:20
… always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.