So often our prayers to God are long and persistent – and sometimes they are answered in the ways we thought they should have been, or sometimes in others way – but then so often, our returning to God to give him thanks is very short-lived – and almost a chore, sometimes.
If, on the other, hand we live our entire lives in a mode of thanksgiving – reminding ourselves each day that everything we have truly comes from God – and that when God provides for specific things that we ask for – this is only, in a sense, icing on the cake – the thanksgiving should only increase and ripple into days and weeks afterwards.
The most important thing to be grateful for is the fact that we have been bathed in the blood of Christ – poured out on Calvary – and now our souls are spotlessly white and clean of all sin. We are now eligible for entrance into eternal glory! There is nothing to be more grateful for than this!
This and every Mass is literally a Thanksgiving (a Eucharist) for that wondrous act of redemption and our participation in it. May the effects of our redeemed life in Christ be evident to all we meet in our day – may our communion aid in the union in peace and charity of the whole world.
The Lord is our Shepherd – he will always give us what we need. We are grateful! We give thanks! Amen!
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