Welcome to a new week and a new theme here on the One Minute Retirement Tip! 

This week’s theme is how gratitude changes your outlook on money. 

I was a little caught off guard this morning before I sat down to write out my talking points for the podcast this week. Every morning, I sit down and pray, and read from a daily gospel passage. Today’s gospel passage speaks directly to this week’s topic of gratitude. 

In Luke, ch. 17, Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem when he meets 10 lepers. Jesus heals all 10 of them, yet only one of them returns to say thank you. Jesus said to him “Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”

To me this seems very odd. You would think that these lepers who had been suffering, and who had been outcast from society, would be falling over themselves to say thank you for being cured. Leprosy was no joke - especially 2000 years ago when there wasn’t a cure - you would have blisters and pain in the joints, nerve damage, loss of fingers. And on top of that, the intense loneliness and hopelessness that came from being cast out. 

Yet, 9 out of 10 of these cured lepers didn’t bother to say thank you. I think this points to a couple of truths. First of all, I think because of our human nature, we aren’t wired for gratitude and it takes work and an awareness to foster gratitude. Each of us may think that we would be the 1 who returned to give thanks, but most of us probably spend way more energy complaining and grumbling then we do giving thanks. 

The problem of our ingratitude leads to less than ideal outcomes - both for our happiness and how we manage our money.

So this week I’ll be talking about how gratitude can help you be happy with less, help you become more patient with your money decisions, and help you make financial decisions that are consistent with your values. 

That’s it for today. But before you go...I just want to wish you a happy Thanksgiving week. This week is going to look a lot different for many of us, and my sincere hope is that if this week is especially difficult or lonely for you, that you will find some peace in looking for ways to be more grateful rather than dwelling on what you wish were different this year.  

Thanks for listening. My name is Ashley Micciche and this is the One Minute Retirement Tip.

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