"Are you grateful?"

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 A friend of mine told the story recently of eating lunch in a cafeteria with a coworker. The conversation was casual and went something like this:

“What are you doing after work today?”

“Oh, I have to go home and cut grass.”

“That sounds like fun.”

“Yea, sure; a whole lot of fun.”

Well, about that time, a cousin of the guy who has to go home and cut grass comes into the cafeteria. He’s in a wheelchair and has been most of his life. Polio struck his body as a child and he’s been in that wheelchair ever since.

So the grass-cutting coworker gets up to visit with his cousin, and when he comes back to the table stops eating for a moment, and then says to his friend, “You know, that’s my cousin in the wheelchair. He contracted polio as a child. He never could cut grass to make money in the summer. I’ll bet he’d love to be able to go home and cut grass after work today. Guess I should be grateful I can…”

So which do you do more of: complain or be grateful to God?

Today, when you’re talking about something you have to do, think about this guy, his cousin, and mowing grass. Then listen to your life and make a life, not just a living.

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