I read this selection from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together. It’s convicting!

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is not great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ.”

I needed to read this today. It is a good reminder to me (and hopefully to you) about giving thanks for small things- and even the things that aren’t quite going the way we might want.  What are the small things that you need to give God thanks for today?