A YEAR OF GRATITUDE
Happy New Year to all my friends, family and readers. I realised I am a day late with this. But it still relevant as we have only just said good bye to 2025 and currently in the first day of 2026.At the beginning of 2025 Mary Smith one of our church leaders set the congregation a challenge for the year. A "years thankfulness jar". This is where you collect written notes of things you're grateful to God for throughout the year in a jar, often starting at the beginning of the year (like New Year's Day). We were encouraged to write down one we were thankful for each week. Then reading them all together at year's end, creating a powerful reminder of blessings, happy moments, answered prayers, or positive experiences, reducing stress and fostering appreciation. It involved a simple container, slips of paper for notes, and a consistent habit of adding entries to build a year's worth of gratitude. It is so easy to reel of all that's negative within the world, i...