I recently spent time with a dear friend and fellow disciple who has to travel frequently and work with groups of people who have a tendency to gripe about their projects. While they need her ability to manage a significant aspect of details for them, she certainly does not need to endure their constant complaining. In fact, she told them so, saying if that is how they wanted to be, they could do the work themselves--without her. They went silent.
She asked why do we have to complain all the time? Why can't we be grateful and satisfied? One of the group called or emailed her the next day to thank her for her "sermon" which had been really needed. I was reminded of how Miss Jen talked last Sunday about the ten lepers who were all healed by Jesus, but only one came back to thank him.
Too often, I and so many of us get caught up in the details, picking at the nits along the way, so much so that we no longer see what it is we are working on, or involved in. Now, I am not talking about saying that shoddy work is acceptable. I mean that we seldom take time to enjoy the process, and the work together, and especially we are far too sparing with our gratitude.
Let's take time today to make note of a thing or two for which we can give thanks--to God, yes--but also to the persons with whom we live, work, and spend our lives.
Luke 17:15-16
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.
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