I was watching ACA last night (sad I know) and there was a story about 2 women - Rachael Bermingham and Kim McCosker - who have created their own business. They’ve struggled and made it on their own when publishers rejected them. They’re now travelling the world promoting their books and have a line of cookware coming out.
At the end of the interview they said how thankful they were for what had happened. ‘I’m just so thankful’ they both said, again and again. Which made me wonder, who are they thankful to? I feel that lots of people in our world feel ‘blessed’ or ‘thankful’ when things go well in life. But they are thankful with no-one to thank.
It’s interesting that being thankful seems like the right thing to feel when something undeserved or unexpected happens. This makes sense to us as Christians. We know where all good things come from – our heavenly Father. We are to be people who ‘give thanks in all circumstances’. But who does the world have to thank? Maybe when people say those kinds of things in conversation we can ask them what they mean and challenge them to think about who they should thank for every good thing in life.
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