Is it possible to choose to be thankful? Is our lack of gratitude slowing us down?  On today's midday motivation, I want to talk about being thankful when you don't feel like it. Especially when you don't feel like it. There's an element of gratitude and these and we know from so many psychological studies and even spiritual studies, that gratitude has a way of getting us out of our funk. It gets us off of staring at ourself and everything that's going on, and it causes us to be grateful for the things that God's blessed us with.

 I don't know about you, but I do not always feel joyful. I don't always pray and I'm not thankful in all circumstances. But I do know that when I initiate those feelings, and I step into them, and I choose to feel that way, or I try my best to operate from that place, things get a little bit better. You can remind yourself of a truth or reality that kind of helps pull you out of your situation. 

"Always be joyful, never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus" 1 Thessalonians 5:16-8 

Gratitude does that for me to be thankful for things when I'm in my own funk or focused on my own self. When that trigger happens of anxiety, fear, worry your insecurity, you can think of that meditation or that prayer, and just for a moment, it might just lift you above that circumstance and allow you to see it differently.