{"id":301914,"date":"2009-11-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/the-blessing-of-gratitude\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:00:00","slug":"the-blessing-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-blessing-of-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know anyone who grumbles and complains?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-03.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"11.4M","filesize_raw":"11950457","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2850,2823],"tags":[4615,4792],"podcast_series":[7684],"cwp_profile":[3052],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-301914","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-development","category-thanksgiving","tag-gratitude","tag-thanksgiving","podcast_series-barbara-rainey-on-gratitude","cwp_profile-barbara-rainey","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/301914\/the-blessing-of-gratitude","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/301914\/the-blessing-of-gratitude","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"161eyJSS08\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-blessing-of-gratitude\/\">The Blessing of Gratitude<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/the-blessing-of-gratitude\/embed\/#?secret=161eyJSS08\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;The Blessing of Gratitude&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"161eyJSS08\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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I am on \u2018Facebook\u2019 and I get thank you\u2018s on Facebook.\u00a0 Barbara and I celebrated our 37<sup>th<\/sup> year of marriage together back in September.\u00a0 It was great to get so many Facebook friends who said, \u201cThank you for your marriage and your ministry and your model as imperfect as it is.\u201d\u00a0 Because it isn\u2019t perfect!\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the other thing I want to say thanks for are those of you who give financially to this ministry and to keep us going.\u00a0 Because I want to tell you something, in this environment, I don\u2019t take any of that for granted that anyone would want to give to what we are doing here.\u00a0 I just want you to know we are squeezing every ounce of ministry out of every buck that you give.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to tell you something it is making a difference here in America and we are touching countries like Rwanda, all over South America, and Central America where <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is now being translated into Spanish.\u00a0 You are making a ton of ministry happen into the lives of marriages and families.\u00a0 And I just want to say, \u201cThank you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 And how did he do?\u00a0 Did he express gratitude appropriately?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 He did a very good job!\u00a0 A +\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 In this situation\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 And I agree! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0 I asked you that because as was said we are talking about gratitude here this week and you have just created a devotional guide for parents to use especially during this time of the year, you could use this anytime couldn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Oh sure you could!\u00a0 But we tend to think of being thankful in the month of November.\u00a0 So, it is just logical to focus on that character quality in this season of the year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Bob, she has been talking about doing something in the month of November, in addition to her other book which is the story of Thanksgiving, <em>Thanksgiving a Time to Remember<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 She has been talking about doing something for families to help them cultivate a spirit of gratitude and thankfulness and she finally did it.\u00a0 I want to tell you I am really impressed with this.\u00a0 It is seven stories all around a theme to help your children look at circumstances and see God in the mist of it and give thanks to Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 The story of the Pilgrims coming to America is one story after another, where we see gratefulness and thanks and humility being expressed by these pilgrims.\u00a0 In this devotional guide for parents, you have seven stories that illustrate different aspects of gratitude so that a mom or a dad could read this around the dinner table and then talk with the kids, and hopefully some of it would sink in just a little bit, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 As a parent you wonder is any of this sinking in at all?\u00a0 But, it really does whether you see immediate response or not. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we know that repetition is one of the best teachers.\u00a0 My desire in doing this is to have a devotional for families, and hopefully dads and moms will learn along with their kids.\u00a0 But, non-the-less, the goal is to focus on the quality of \u2018gratitude\u2019 repeatedly for a week.\u00a0 With the hope that, perhaps by repeating it and reinforcing it over and over again, it will begin to sink in and some of these stories may take root.\u00a0 Some of the stories may be latched on to by a child and may be referred back to mentally.\u00a0 They may find themselves in a situation and think, \u201cGosh, if Corrie Ten Boon can give thanks, maybe I should, too.\u00a0 So, that is the idea, is that we would inspire our children with great stories of faith on a particular topic and in this case it is on gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have the opportunity, I think it was last Thanksgiving; you talked to a number of moms about this subject of gratitude.\u00a0 You spent part of the time talking about grumbling and the sin of grumbling and how we need to address that in our own lives and in our kids\u2019 lives.\u00a0 And then you turned the corner and said, \u201cOkay, now let\u2019s talk about how we cultivate gratitude.\u201d\u00a0 And we are going to pick up your message right there.\u00a0 This is part two of Barbara Rainey speaking on the subject of gratitude to a number of young moms.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara Rainey\u2019s Message - How we Cultivate Gratitude:<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, how do we cultivate gratitude in our lives and in our kids and in our family?\u00a0\u00a0 First of all choose to become a grateful woman first.\u00a0 It starts with you and it starts with me.\u00a0 You are your children\u2019s example and model.\u00a0 When they see what you do they will imitate it don\u2019t they?\u00a0 For good and for bad.\u00a0 It is kind of scary. I did not like that part about being a mom; when my kids would imitate what I did that was not so attractive.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you complain about the weather when it doesn\u2019t suit you, or you complain about your circumstances when they aren\u2019t what you would like for them to be, and when you don\u2019t like them or the people in your life, the people in your life..... Hmmmmmmmmmmm?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMaybe your in-laws that you don\u2019t get along with, maybe neighbors that rub you the wrong way, or a child in the neighborhood who is really irritating to have around your house, or perhaps it is your husband, perhaps it is somebody you work with or your husband works with; there is always going to be people in our lives that are a little hard to get along with or that we may not enjoy being around as much.\u00a0 And if we complain about them, and our kids know we don\u2019t like them, it is contagious.\u00a0 We need to be grateful women first before we can teach our children to be grateful children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, make gratitude a habit in your family.\u00a0 Begin when your kids are little to help them memorize verses.\u00a0 1 Thessalonians 5:18 is so easy for children to remember; \u201cGive thanks in all things for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 They can start with the first three or four words, \u201cGive thanks in all things.\u201d\u00a0 Begin to teach them God\u2019s word on thanksgiving and gratitude.\u00a0 There are a lot of verses in the Bible about thanksgiving and gratitude and God really thinks it is important for us as His children to be grateful.\u00a0 So, begin to do that with your kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then third, I want to challenge you this year the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday of great gratitude in your family.\u00a0\u00a0 Read these stories to your children, or if they are too young, just begin to tell them; or do like I did when my kids were little and couldn\u2019t listen to the stories for very long and I just had them color pictures that bring gratitude into your Thanksgiving Celebration and begin to train your children to give thanks for things in their lives<strong>.<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn our family when we have our Thanksgiving meal together, every year, the first thing we do is we read this book.\u00a0 And depending on who is there, if it is just the adults, we read the whole book; it takes about 45 minutes is all to read it from beginning to end.\u00a0\u00a0 Or if I have a lot of the grandkids around, we sometimes put a video in for the little grandkids, and the older ones who are 5, 6, 7, 8, will sit around the table, and they will interrupt, and they will squirm, and sometimes they color while doing this.\u00a0 But, we will have them sit there and listen; so start by reading stories to them and helping them do that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAfter we read the book together as a family, we all go around the table, and everyone of us have a card of some kind, and I usually come up with a different card every year; and we each write down five things we are grateful for.\u00a0 It is sort of like what you were doing at your tables this morning with your three little kernels of corns, on that card.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have 5 kernels of corn and we each have a card and we each write down 5 things that we are thankful for and we all put our name on it and date it.\u00a0 And then we go around the table after we read the story and we take turns sharing those five things we are grateful for, and we drop a kernel of corn in the basket each time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt has been a wonderful tradition in our family to focus on what we are grateful for, before we do anything else on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.\u00a0 And we keep that focus, no matter how large a group we have or how small a group we have, because it reminds us that gratitude is the reason for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have brought my scrapbook.\u00a0 I have decided over the years, that this scrapbook is as important to me, or more important than my photo albums.\u00a0 And I have a bunch of photo albums!\u00a0 But, this is a scrapbook that has all the cards that we have kept through the years where we have written down what we are thankful for.\u00a0 And it is such a collection of the growth in my kids\u2019 lives and for the work of God in our lives as a family.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere were several years, I don\u2019t know what happened to them; I think they disappeared, but one of the very first ones I have is this one my youngest one did.\u00a0 And she did all the colors and scribbles on this white piece of paper.\u00a0 She was only about 2 \u00bd and I remember asking her, \u201cLaura, what are you thankful for?\u201d\u00a0 I wrote down what she said on this little scribble page that she had.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI am thankful for John and Lori, I am thankful for daddy, I am thankful for Jesus, for Benjamin and Samuel, for my presents, for my home, and for my blankie.\u201d\u00a0 And that was my favorite part, \u2018my blankie.\u2019\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen one of our kids when they were 10 wrote this on their card; this is a daughter, she wrote, \u201cMy teacher, my aunt, \u2018A-N-T\u2019 spelled aunt, uncle and cousins - \u2018CUSINS\u2019, Ashley college \u2013 \u2018COLGE\u2019, that is \u2018college\u2019 because my oldest had just left for college that year, my parents and my friends.\u00a0 So she was very brief and to the point that year.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnother one is from our son, and this was the year he was 15, this is our second son, Samuel, who we discovered that year, had developed a neuro-muscular disease.\u00a0 He was an avid tennis player; played tennis all over the state and was ranked in the state.\u00a0 We were thinking college scholarships, you know?\u00a0 We, as parents begin to think as your kids get older; and you will start doing that someday too.\u00a0 So, we are thinking college scholarships, we are thinking this kid has really got potential and then he developed this disease and he couldn\u2019t run anymore; he couldn\u2019t chase a tennis ball anymore. We found ourselves that summer at Mayo Clinic trying to find out what was wrong, what could we do,\u00a0 how can we fix this, surely there is a way we can fix this? Well, there is no way to fix it.\u00a0 And he still lives with it today as an adult.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat thanksgiving he wrote on his card, \u201cI am thankful that Ashley, my sister, can come home from college.\u00a0 I am thankful for my family.\u201d\u00a0 And then # 3 he wrote, \u201cI am thankful for my disease and for Mayo Clinic.\u201d\u00a0 You know when you hear a 15 year old child express gratitude for something that difficult and that hard, as a parent, you just go, I am so grateful that he is getting it.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, was he thankful all the time?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Did he like it?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 But, he expressed faith to God.\u00a0\u00a0 That God was in control and God had His reasons and God was still acting in good toward him as a 15 year old boy.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, one more, this one is from our youngest the year she was 13.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI am thankful for Rebecca and how she handled her surgery.\u00a0 I am glad her knee is better.\u201d\u00a0 Rebecca tore her knee up cheerleading.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI am thankful for Ashley and the little baby that is growing inside of her and that I finally get to be an Aunt.\u201d\u00a0 And she spelled Aunt correctly, by then!\u00a0 \u201cI am thankful that I have a wonderful family, I am thankful that I have a house and clothes and food on the table.\u201d\u00a0 And see this came after we had read our story and she had heard about the Pilgrims again, for about the 10<sup>th<\/sup> time in her life.\u00a0 How they didn\u2019t have food and they didn\u2019t have clothes and how they just didn\u2019t have much.\u00a0 She realized that she needed to be thankful for clothes and food and a warm house.\u00a0 And then she said, \u201cI am thankful that I have Jesus in my heart and that I am going to heaven some day.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, this book has become a record of what God has done in our lives individually and what God has doing in our kids.\u00a0 It really has become a treasure.\u00a0 So, I encourage you to start this with your kids.\u00a0 Get whatever kind of paper you want to do.\u00a0\u00a0 Be as creative as you want to be!\u00a0 But, start having them share and write down as soon as they are ably to write, what they are thankful for every year.\u00a0\u00a0 Keep them and it will become a treasure for your family too.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne last story that I want to read you out of the book, is the story of the second year that the Pilgrims were in Plymouth colony.\u00a0 There conditions hadn\u2019t improved very much, in fact I think in many ways they were probably worse.\u00a0 There was a ship in the summer of 1623 that had been reported lost at sea, but finally showed up and it arrived safely at Plymouth Harbor.\u00a0 The new comers however, were shocked and dismayed at the condition of their friends and relatives.\u00a0 Bradford wrote; William Bradford, who was the governor of the colony and kept a journal, which is where most of this information came from, by the way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBradford wrote, \u201cThat it was no wonder that the new comers were surprised.\u00a0 The Pilgrims were thin and gaunt wearing ragged clothes, some little better than half naked.\u00a0 The only food they could offer in welcome was a lobster or a piece of fish, with no bread and nothing else, but a cup of spring water.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBradford concluded by saying, \u201cbut God gave them health and strength in good measure and showed them by experience that the truth of the word in Deuteronomy 8:3, \u2018That man lives not by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 That harvest season was an abundant one.\u00a0 There was even a surplus to trade with the Indians for what they needed that winter.\u00a0 They had much to celebrate!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnother day of Thanksgiving was planned that year, probably in August or in September.\u00a0 The Indians were again invited with their chief, Massasoit.\u00a0 As they expressed their gratitude and thanksgiving to God they had remembered the famine they had recently experienced.\u00a0 No one would soon forget the meager rations they had lived on for nearly two years.\u00a0 But, though they didn\u2019t soon forget, we have.\u00a0 Nearly 400 years later, we who are the beneficiaries of their sacrifice, pause at the end of the harvest season to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are many lessons we can learn from this story, but they all come back to faith.\u00a0 The Pilgrims sailed to America because of their faith.\u00a0 They wrote the Mayflower Compact based on God\u2019s word and signed it by faith.\u00a0 They persevered in the harsh climate because of their faith.\u00a0 They befriended the Native Americans because of their faith.\u00a0 Their uncompromising belief in God and His word became the cornerstone of the colony, and in turn the new nation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay we as Americans remember every year what a rich legacy we have been given, so that we might express gratitude to God and not negligently lose what our fathers have obtained with so much hardship.\u00a0 And so I want to challenge you, as you head into the Thanksgiving season with your family to make it the beginning, it you aren\u2019t already doing so, of an annual tradition of giving thanks as a family to God for all the blessings He has given us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt would probably take pages and pages and pages if we really began to give thanks for everything that God has done in our lives.\u00a0 We could list way more than five things if we took the time, couldn\u2019t we?\u00a0 We are abundantly blessed!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the real temptation for us, I think, in our country, is to not be grateful, to slip into ingratitude, and to not be a people who express faith to God in thanksgiving.\u00a0 So, I want to challenge you to initiate that in your family and begin to do that with your children and your husband and your extended family and whomever God brings to you over the Thanksgiving holiday; that you might grow in your faith and grow in your gratitude to God as a family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, again today, we have been listening to the second part of a message where Barbara Rainey was addressing the subject of gratitude.\u00a0 I was listening, Barbara, I was thinking of Philippians chapter 2, where Paul says really our witness for Christ in the world, is tied to whether we are grumblers or not.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe says, \u201cDo all things without grumbling or questioning so that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This is fascinating to me that Paul would say your grumbling or your complaining really reflects on the reality of your spiritual condition and sends a message to those who are watching you about what you believe is true about God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is absolutely true!\u00a0\u00a0 We are so oblivious to that I think as believers.\u00a0 We think we have rights and we think we should have what we want and we don\u2019t realize that those who are watching are seeing us as no different than themselves.\u00a0 What is going to make the gospel attractive, what made the gospel attractive in the Pilgrims\u2019 lives is that they gave thanks in all things and it was a remarkable witness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There is no question that in a family, it brings out the best in us and the worst in us.\u00a0 We can be discontent and gripe and grumble and complain and I think, Bob, it is why these stories are so important to really imbed vivid pictures of people struggling and suffering and undergoing hardship, but people who learned how to give thanks in all things, and not do as you read there from Philippians chapter 2, who these people weren\u2019t grumbling, griping and complaining.\u00a0 As a result, you read their stories and their lights are shining.\u00a0 They really are a good witness and they do give credence to the gospel. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 You shared that verse with your kids, didn\u2019t you?\u00a0\u00a0 Philippians 2:1?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis and Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh yes!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 We made them memorize it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 They memorized it and nailed it immediately!\u00a0 Completely changed!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 It was miraculous!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 As soon as they had it memorized their lives were just....\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 Oh Yeah!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am going to tell you something, in our family,...\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 .... it is like changing the course of the Mississippi River.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0 Are you saying there is a deep root of grumbling? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>:\u00a0 I\u2019m saying, this devotional has come out of great weakness.\u00a0 I wish I could tell people that this was one of the great strengths of our family.\u00a0 I think it has become more of that, but honestly, I am ashamed at myself, not my kids; me!\u00a0\u00a0 At points, as the dad of this family, I didn\u2019t demonstrate more of a grateful spirit for them to follow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, maybe this year at Thanksgiving you can read some of these stories to Dennis?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 See if we can get some change.....\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 Get some change?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have read them, but I am going to tell you that the first story about Corrie Ten Boom, and being in a barracks that is infested with fleas, it is a vivid picture.\u00a0 And all of a sudden you start thinking about what you are complaining about, it brings it into perspective.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The stories we are talking about are in a devotional book that Barbara Rainey has put together called, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 In fact we are hoping that all of our listeners will get a copy of this devotional and use it with their family this month.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo help make that happen, here\u2019s what we are doing; we want you to either go online or call us and request a copy of this devotional, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 All we ask is that you make a donation of any amount to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We are listener supported, so those donations are what keep us on this station and our network of stations all across the country.\u00a0 So we are just asking that you make a donation; do what you can do and feel free to request a copy of the brand new devotional, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If fact this is so new that we haven\u2019t been able to get it out to anybody else.\u00a0 It is not in bookstores, it is not on Amazon, so if you want to get a copy the only place to get it is at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 Just click where is says to make a donation and as you fill out the form online there is a key code box, just type the word, \u201cGRATITUDE\u201d in that key code box and we will know to send you a copy of the <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>,\u00a0 devotional.\u00a0 Or simply call 1-800-FLTODAY; 1-800-358-6329 and make a donation over the phone and just ask for the <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>, devotional.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd let me say \u2018Thanks\u2019 for your financial support of the ministry.\u00a0 We really do appreciate your partnership with us and we hope this devotional is something that is a great encouragement to your family this year in November, as you prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSpeaking of Thanksgiving, we have got copies of Barbara\u2019s book, <em>Thanksgiving a Time to Remember<\/em>, along with additional resources that we have put together to help your family have a more meaningful Thanksgiving celebration.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDetails about Barbara\u2019s book and those other resources can be found on our web site FamilyLifeToday.com or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY\u00a0 and we can explain what resources are available and we can get you set up for Thanksgiving this year.\u00a0 Again the web site FamilyLifeToday.com; the phone number 1-800 F as in \u201cfamily\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow\u00a0 we are going to talk more about how we cultivate a heart of gratitude in our children and we are going to hear one of the stories from Barbara\u2019s new, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>\u00a0 devotional.\u00a0 I hope you can join us back for that.\u00a0\u00a0 I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host Dennis Rainey, I am Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife<\/em> <em>Today.<\/em>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Help for today!\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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you know anyone who grumbles and complains?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-03.pdf","transcript_content":"<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u00a0The year that Samuel Rainey turned 15 was a challenging year.\u00a0 It was the year he was diagnosed with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy.\u00a0 Barbara Rainey says that\u2019s the kind of diagnosis that does not produce thankfulness in the heart of a teenager.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 That thanksgiving he wrote on his card, \u201cI am thankful that Ashley, my sister, can come home from college.\u00a0 I am thankful for my family.\u201d\u00a0 And then # 3 he wrote, \u201cI am thankful for my disease and for Mayo Clinic.\u201d\u00a0 You know when you hear a 15 year old child express gratitude for something that difficult, as a parent, I am so grateful that he is getting it.\u00a0 That God was in control and God had His reasons and God was still acting in good toward him as a 15 year old boy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I am Bob Lepine.\u00a0 The only reason we can \u201cgive thanks in all things\u201d is because God is in control of all things, \u201cworking them for our good and His glory.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>!\u00a0 Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.\u00a0 We are talking this week on the subject of gratitude and I brought in some thank you notes that we have received here at FamilyLife.\u00a0 As long as we are talking about gratitude we ought to hear how folks have expressed gratitude for you and for the ministry, Dennis.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHere is a listener who wrote and said, \u201cThank you for your ministry!\u00a0 Your ministry has guided my Christian walk and has helped me walk closer with God.\u00a0 You have been the spiritual parent I never had.\u00a0 Thank you and God bless you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>:\u00a0 That\u2019s cool!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that nice?\u00a0 Here is a listener who wrote and said, \u201cI came to the Lord at 40.\u00a0 You were so helpful in teaching me things about a family and about raising children that I never knew.\u00a0 Thank you and God bless!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then a listener wrote to say, \u201cI hope you guys know how grateful people are, for people like you who live for God and exhort and enable others to.\u00a0 God bless you!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know it is just nice to hear notes like that.\u00a0 I mean, I read those and thought, \u201cI am going to read them to you and share them with our listeners just because it is nice when people say \u2018thank you.\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I want to say two things in response.\u00a0 First of all, \u2018Thank you for saying thank you, I mean for taking the time to write. I am on \u2018Facebook\u2019 and I get thank you\u2018s on Facebook.\u00a0 Barbara and I celebrated our 37<sup>th<\/sup> year of marriage together back in September.\u00a0 It was great to get so many Facebook friends who said, \u201cThank you for your marriage and your ministry and your model as imperfect as it is.\u201d\u00a0 Because it isn\u2019t perfect!\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the other thing I want to say thanks for are those of you who give financially to this ministry and to keep us going.\u00a0 Because I want to tell you something, in this environment, I don\u2019t take any of that for granted that anyone would want to give to what we are doing here.\u00a0 I just want you to know we are squeezing every ounce of ministry out of every buck that you give.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to tell you something it is making a difference here in America and we are touching countries like Rwanda, all over South America, and Central America where <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is now being translated into Spanish.\u00a0 You are making a ton of ministry happen into the lives of marriages and families.\u00a0 And I just want to say, \u201cThank you.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 And how did he do?\u00a0 Did he express gratitude appropriately?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 He did a very good job!\u00a0 A +\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 In this situation\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 And I agree! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0 I asked you that because as was said we are talking about gratitude here this week and you have just created a devotional guide for parents to use especially during this time of the year, you could use this anytime couldn\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Oh sure you could!\u00a0 But we tend to think of being thankful in the month of November.\u00a0 So, it is just logical to focus on that character quality in this season of the year.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Bob, she has been talking about doing something in the month of November, in addition to her other book which is the story of Thanksgiving, <em>Thanksgiving a Time to Remember<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 She has been talking about doing something for families to help them cultivate a spirit of gratitude and thankfulness and she finally did it.\u00a0 I want to tell you I am really impressed with this.\u00a0 It is seven stories all around a theme to help your children look at circumstances and see God in the mist of it and give thanks to Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 The story of the Pilgrims coming to America is one story after another, where we see gratefulness and thanks and humility being expressed by these pilgrims.\u00a0 In this devotional guide for parents, you have seven stories that illustrate different aspects of gratitude so that a mom or a dad could read this around the dinner table and then talk with the kids, and hopefully some of it would sink in just a little bit, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 As a parent you wonder is any of this sinking in at all?\u00a0 But, it really does whether you see immediate response or not. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, we know that repetition is one of the best teachers.\u00a0 My desire in doing this is to have a devotional for families, and hopefully dads and moms will learn along with their kids.\u00a0 But, non-the-less, the goal is to focus on the quality of \u2018gratitude\u2019 repeatedly for a week.\u00a0 With the hope that, perhaps by repeating it and reinforcing it over and over again, it will begin to sink in and some of these stories may take root.\u00a0 Some of the stories may be latched on to by a child and may be referred back to mentally.\u00a0 They may find themselves in a situation and think, \u201cGosh, if Corrie Ten Boon can give thanks, maybe I should, too.\u00a0 So, that is the idea, is that we would inspire our children with great stories of faith on a particular topic and in this case it is on gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have the opportunity, I think it was last Thanksgiving; you talked to a number of moms about this subject of gratitude.\u00a0 You spent part of the time talking about grumbling and the sin of grumbling and how we need to address that in our own lives and in our kids\u2019 lives.\u00a0 And then you turned the corner and said, \u201cOkay, now let\u2019s talk about how we cultivate gratitude.\u201d\u00a0 And we are going to pick up your message right there.\u00a0 This is part two of Barbara Rainey speaking on the subject of gratitude to a number of young moms.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara Rainey\u2019s Message - How we Cultivate Gratitude:<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, how do we cultivate gratitude in our lives and in our kids and in our family?\u00a0\u00a0 First of all choose to become a grateful woman first.\u00a0 It starts with you and it starts with me.\u00a0 You are your children\u2019s example and model.\u00a0 When they see what you do they will imitate it don\u2019t they?\u00a0 For good and for bad.\u00a0 It is kind of scary. I did not like that part about being a mom; when my kids would imitate what I did that was not so attractive.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you complain about the weather when it doesn\u2019t suit you, or you complain about your circumstances when they aren\u2019t what you would like for them to be, and when you don\u2019t like them or the people in your life, the people in your life..... Hmmmmmmmmmmm?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMaybe your in-laws that you don\u2019t get along with, maybe neighbors that rub you the wrong way, or a child in the neighborhood who is really irritating to have around your house, or perhaps it is your husband, perhaps it is somebody you work with or your husband works with; there is always going to be people in our lives that are a little hard to get along with or that we may not enjoy being around as much.\u00a0 And if we complain about them, and our kids know we don\u2019t like them, it is contagious.\u00a0 We need to be grateful women first before we can teach our children to be grateful children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, make gratitude a habit in your family.\u00a0 Begin when your kids are little to help them memorize verses.\u00a0 1 Thessalonians 5:18 is so easy for children to remember; \u201cGive thanks in all things for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 They can start with the first three or four words, \u201cGive thanks in all things.\u201d\u00a0 Begin to teach them God\u2019s word on thanksgiving and gratitude.\u00a0 There are a lot of verses in the Bible about thanksgiving and gratitude and God really thinks it is important for us as His children to be grateful.\u00a0 So, begin to do that with your kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then third, I want to challenge you this year the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday of great gratitude in your family.\u00a0\u00a0 Read these stories to your children, or if they are too young, just begin to tell them; or do like I did when my kids were little and couldn\u2019t listen to the stories for very long and I just had them color pictures that bring gratitude into your Thanksgiving Celebration and begin to train your children to give thanks for things in their lives<strong>.<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn our family when we have our Thanksgiving meal together, every year, the first thing we do is we read this book.\u00a0 And depending on who is there, if it is just the adults, we read the whole book; it takes about 45 minutes is all to read it from beginning to end.\u00a0\u00a0 Or if I have a lot of the grandkids around, we sometimes put a video in for the little grandkids, and the older ones who are 5, 6, 7, 8, will sit around the table, and they will interrupt, and they will squirm, and sometimes they color while doing this.\u00a0 But, we will have them sit there and listen; so start by reading stories to them and helping them do that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAfter we read the book together as a family, we all go around the table, and everyone of us have a card of some kind, and I usually come up with a different card every year; and we each write down five things we are grateful for.\u00a0 It is sort of like what you were doing at your tables this morning with your three little kernels of corns, on that card.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have 5 kernels of corn and we each have a card and we each write down 5 things that we are thankful for and we all put our name on it and date it.\u00a0 And then we go around the table after we read the story and we take turns sharing those five things we are grateful for, and we drop a kernel of corn in the basket each time.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt has been a wonderful tradition in our family to focus on what we are grateful for, before we do anything else on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.\u00a0 And we keep that focus, no matter how large a group we have or how small a group we have, because it reminds us that gratitude is the reason for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have brought my scrapbook.\u00a0 I have decided over the years, that this scrapbook is as important to me, or more important than my photo albums.\u00a0 And I have a bunch of photo albums!\u00a0 But, this is a scrapbook that has all the cards that we have kept through the years where we have written down what we are thankful for.\u00a0 And it is such a collection of the growth in my kids\u2019 lives and for the work of God in our lives as a family.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere were several years, I don\u2019t know what happened to them; I think they disappeared, but one of the very first ones I have is this one my youngest one did.\u00a0 And she did all the colors and scribbles on this white piece of paper.\u00a0 She was only about 2 \u00bd and I remember asking her, \u201cLaura, what are you thankful for?\u201d\u00a0 I wrote down what she said on this little scribble page that she had.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI am thankful for John and Lori, I am thankful for daddy, I am thankful for Jesus, for Benjamin and Samuel, for my presents, for my home, and for my blankie.\u201d\u00a0 And that was my favorite part, \u2018my blankie.\u2019\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen one of our kids when they were 10 wrote this on their card; this is a daughter, she wrote, \u201cMy teacher, my aunt, \u2018A-N-T\u2019 spelled aunt, uncle and cousins - \u2018CUSINS\u2019, Ashley college \u2013 \u2018COLGE\u2019, that is \u2018college\u2019 because my oldest had just left for college that year, my parents and my friends.\u00a0 So she was very brief and to the point that year.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnother one is from our son, and this was the year he was 15, this is our second son, Samuel, who we discovered that year, had developed a neuro-muscular disease.\u00a0 He was an avid tennis player; played tennis all over the state and was ranked in the state.\u00a0 We were thinking college scholarships, you know?\u00a0 We, as parents begin to think as your kids get older; and you will start doing that someday too.\u00a0 So, we are thinking college scholarships, we are thinking this kid has really got potential and then he developed this disease and he couldn\u2019t run anymore; he couldn\u2019t chase a tennis ball anymore. We found ourselves that summer at Mayo Clinic trying to find out what was wrong, what could we do,\u00a0 how can we fix this, surely there is a way we can fix this? Well, there is no way to fix it.\u00a0 And he still lives with it today as an adult.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat thanksgiving he wrote on his card, \u201cI am thankful that Ashley, my sister, can come home from college.\u00a0 I am thankful for my family.\u201d\u00a0 And then # 3 he wrote, \u201cI am thankful for my disease and for Mayo Clinic.\u201d\u00a0 You know when you hear a 15 year old child express gratitude for something that difficult and that hard, as a parent, you just go, I am so grateful that he is getting it.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, was he thankful all the time?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 Did he like it?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 But, he expressed faith to God.\u00a0\u00a0 That God was in control and God had His reasons and God was still acting in good toward him as a 15 year old boy.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd then, one more, this one is from our youngest the year she was 13.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI am thankful for Rebecca and how she handled her surgery.\u00a0 I am glad her knee is better.\u201d\u00a0 Rebecca tore her knee up cheerleading.\u00a0 She said, \u201cI am thankful for Ashley and the little baby that is growing inside of her and that I finally get to be an Aunt.\u201d\u00a0 And she spelled Aunt correctly, by then!\u00a0 \u201cI am thankful that I have a wonderful family, I am thankful that I have a house and clothes and food on the table.\u201d\u00a0 And see this came after we had read our story and she had heard about the Pilgrims again, for about the 10<sup>th<\/sup> time in her life.\u00a0 How they didn\u2019t have food and they didn\u2019t have clothes and how they just didn\u2019t have much.\u00a0 She realized that she needed to be thankful for clothes and food and a warm house.\u00a0 And then she said, \u201cI am thankful that I have Jesus in my heart and that I am going to heaven some day.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, this book has become a record of what God has done in our lives individually and what God has doing in our kids.\u00a0 It really has become a treasure.\u00a0 So, I encourage you to start this with your kids.\u00a0 Get whatever kind of paper you want to do.\u00a0\u00a0 Be as creative as you want to be!\u00a0 But, start having them share and write down as soon as they are ably to write, what they are thankful for every year.\u00a0\u00a0 Keep them and it will become a treasure for your family too.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne last story that I want to read you out of the book, is the story of the second year that the Pilgrims were in Plymouth colony.\u00a0 There conditions hadn\u2019t improved very much, in fact I think in many ways they were probably worse.\u00a0 There was a ship in the summer of 1623 that had been reported lost at sea, but finally showed up and it arrived safely at Plymouth Harbor.\u00a0 The new comers however, were shocked and dismayed at the condition of their friends and relatives.\u00a0 Bradford wrote; William Bradford, who was the governor of the colony and kept a journal, which is where most of this information came from, by the way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBradford wrote, \u201cThat it was no wonder that the new comers were surprised.\u00a0 The Pilgrims were thin and gaunt wearing ragged clothes, some little better than half naked.\u00a0 The only food they could offer in welcome was a lobster or a piece of fish, with no bread and nothing else, but a cup of spring water.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBradford concluded by saying, \u201cbut God gave them health and strength in good measure and showed them by experience that the truth of the word in Deuteronomy 8:3, \u2018That man lives not by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 That harvest season was an abundant one.\u00a0 There was even a surplus to trade with the Indians for what they needed that winter.\u00a0 They had much to celebrate!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnother day of Thanksgiving was planned that year, probably in August or in September.\u00a0 The Indians were again invited with their chief, Massasoit.\u00a0 As they expressed their gratitude and thanksgiving to God they had remembered the famine they had recently experienced.\u00a0 No one would soon forget the meager rations they had lived on for nearly two years.\u00a0 But, though they didn\u2019t soon forget, we have.\u00a0 Nearly 400 years later, we who are the beneficiaries of their sacrifice, pause at the end of the harvest season to celebrate a day of Thanksgiving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are many lessons we can learn from this story, but they all come back to faith.\u00a0 The Pilgrims sailed to America because of their faith.\u00a0 They wrote the Mayflower Compact based on God\u2019s word and signed it by faith.\u00a0 They persevered in the harsh climate because of their faith.\u00a0 They befriended the Native Americans because of their faith.\u00a0 Their uncompromising belief in God and His word became the cornerstone of the colony, and in turn the new nation.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay we as Americans remember every year what a rich legacy we have been given, so that we might express gratitude to God and not negligently lose what our fathers have obtained with so much hardship.\u00a0 And so I want to challenge you, as you head into the Thanksgiving season with your family to make it the beginning, it you aren\u2019t already doing so, of an annual tradition of giving thanks as a family to God for all the blessings He has given us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt would probably take pages and pages and pages if we really began to give thanks for everything that God has done in our lives.\u00a0 We could list way more than five things if we took the time, couldn\u2019t we?\u00a0 We are abundantly blessed!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut the real temptation for us, I think, in our country, is to not be grateful, to slip into ingratitude, and to not be a people who express faith to God in thanksgiving.\u00a0 So, I want to challenge you to initiate that in your family and begin to do that with your children and your husband and your extended family and whomever God brings to you over the Thanksgiving holiday; that you might grow in your faith and grow in your gratitude to God as a family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, again today, we have been listening to the second part of a message where Barbara Rainey was addressing the subject of gratitude.\u00a0 I was listening, Barbara, I was thinking of Philippians chapter 2, where Paul says really our witness for Christ in the world, is tied to whether we are grumblers or not.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe says, \u201cDo all things without grumbling or questioning so that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This is fascinating to me that Paul would say your grumbling or your complaining really reflects on the reality of your spiritual condition and sends a message to those who are watching you about what you believe is true about God.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That is absolutely true!\u00a0\u00a0 We are so oblivious to that I think as believers.\u00a0 We think we have rights and we think we should have what we want and we don\u2019t realize that those who are watching are seeing us as no different than themselves.\u00a0 What is going to make the gospel attractive, what made the gospel attractive in the Pilgrims\u2019 lives is that they gave thanks in all things and it was a remarkable witness.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There is no question that in a family, it brings out the best in us and the worst in us.\u00a0 We can be discontent and gripe and grumble and complain and I think, Bob, it is why these stories are so important to really imbed vivid pictures of people struggling and suffering and undergoing hardship, but people who learned how to give thanks in all things, and not do as you read there from Philippians chapter 2, who these people weren\u2019t grumbling, griping and complaining.\u00a0 As a result, you read their stories and their lights are shining.\u00a0 They really are a good witness and they do give credence to the gospel. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 You shared that verse with your kids, didn\u2019t you?\u00a0\u00a0 Philippians 2:1?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis and Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh yes!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 We made them memorize it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 They memorized it and nailed it immediately!\u00a0 Completely changed!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 It was miraculous!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 As soon as they had it memorized their lives were just....\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 Oh Yeah!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am going to tell you something, in our family,...\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 .... it is like changing the course of the Mississippi River.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob<\/strong>:\u00a0 Are you saying there is a deep root of grumbling? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>:\u00a0 I\u2019m saying, this devotional has come out of great weakness.\u00a0 I wish I could tell people that this was one of the great strengths of our family.\u00a0 I think it has become more of that, but honestly, I am ashamed at myself, not my kids; me!\u00a0\u00a0 At points, as the dad of this family, I didn\u2019t demonstrate more of a grateful spirit for them to follow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, maybe this year at Thanksgiving you can read some of these stories to Dennis?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 See if we can get some change.....\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara<\/strong>:\u00a0 Get some change?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have read them, but I am going to tell you that the first story about Corrie Ten Boom, and being in a barracks that is infested with fleas, it is a vivid picture.\u00a0 And all of a sudden you start thinking about what you are complaining about, it brings it into perspective.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The stories we are talking about are in a devotional book that Barbara Rainey has put together called, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 In fact we are hoping that all of our listeners will get a copy of this devotional and use it with their family this month.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo help make that happen, here\u2019s what we are doing; we want you to either go online or call us and request a copy of this devotional, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>.\u00a0 All we ask is that you make a donation of any amount to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We are listener supported, so those donations are what keep us on this station and our network of stations all across the country.\u00a0 So we are just asking that you make a donation; do what you can do and feel free to request a copy of the brand new devotional, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0If fact this is so new that we haven\u2019t been able to get it out to anybody else.\u00a0 It is not in bookstores, it is not on Amazon, so if you want to get a copy the only place to get it is at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 Just click where is says to make a donation and as you fill out the form online there is a key code box, just type the word, \u201cGRATITUDE\u201d in that key code box and we will know to send you a copy of the <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>,\u00a0 devotional.\u00a0 Or simply call 1-800-FLTODAY; 1-800-358-6329 and make a donation over the phone and just ask for the <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>, devotional.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd let me say \u2018Thanks\u2019 for your financial support of the ministry.\u00a0 We really do appreciate your partnership with us and we hope this devotional is something that is a great encouragement to your family this year in November, as you prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSpeaking of Thanksgiving, we have got copies of Barbara\u2019s book, <em>Thanksgiving a Time to Remember<\/em>, along with additional resources that we have put together to help your family have a more meaningful Thanksgiving celebration.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDetails about Barbara\u2019s book and those other resources can be found on our web site FamilyLifeToday.com or you can call 1-800-FLTODAY\u00a0 and we can explain what resources are available and we can get you set up for Thanksgiving this year.\u00a0 Again the web site FamilyLifeToday.com; the phone number 1-800 F as in \u201cfamily\u201d L as in \u201clife\u201d and then the word TODAY.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow tomorrow\u00a0 we are going to talk more about how we cultivate a heart of gratitude in our children and we are going to hear one of the stories from Barbara\u2019s new, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>\u00a0 devotional.\u00a0 I hope you can join us back for that.\u00a0\u00a0 I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host Dennis Rainey, I am Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife<\/em> <em>Today.<\/em>\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Help for today!\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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