There was a preacher on a train. He saw a well-dressed man and magnificently dressed woman with expensive jewelry. The woman was complaining about everything...the train ride, the weather, the news, the food, the service. The preacher decided to engage this couple in a conversation. He asked the man what kind of business he was in and the man told him. Then he asked, "What does your wife do?" He said, "Oh, she's in the manufacturing business. She manufactures her own unhappiness."

There are a lot of people like that. They manufacture their misery because they fail to be grateful. Only Christ can turn our lives around and stir up a grateful heart within.

Jesus said that he came to give an abundant and joyous life (John 10:10). What a shame that so few realize it!

The verse of an old hymn gives us good advice. “Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done.” Rather than being grumbly hateful, why not be humbly grateful