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, it often overshadows everything that is good in the world. This simple challenge has definitely had an impact on me last year. Learning to more positive about life, I adapt better with visual aids.
Here is my jar and I have just looked through it today. Placing them on a board on my mantal piece. I forgot to share this yesterday. To seal this exercise of being thankful, today (New Years Day). My first blessing of 2026 was witnessing a rainbow seen through my kitchen window. God knows how I love Rainbows what a promise to start the new year with. God has promised never to leave nor forsake us. Whenever you see a rainbow, remember God is love.So this is a good start to the 2026 Thankfulness jar.
#joy #peace #hope #love for 2026
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, it often overshadows everything that is good in the world. This simple challenge has definitely had an impact on me last year. Learning to more positive about life, I adapt better with visual aids.
Here is my jar and I have just looked through it today. Placing them on a board on my mantal piece. I forgot to share this yesterday. To seal this exercise of being thankful, today (New Years Day). My first blessing of 2026 was witnessing a rainbow seen through my kitchen window. God knows how I love Rainbows what a promise to start the new year with. God has promised never to leave nor forsake us. Whenever you see a rainbow, remember God is love.So this is a good start to the 2026 Thankfulness jar.
#joy #peace #hope #love for 2026
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