#Appreciation

Its Thursday and the garbage can is out by the side of the street, waiting. Its Friday and the temperature outside is 20 degrees and the thermostat on the wall is set at 68 degrees. Its Saturday and the grocery list is made and the car is waiting on the driveway. Each one of these things has an expectancy and at the fulfillment, one just might be appreciative. We regularly need our garbage removed and we need to be warm enough to function and we need to eat, regularly. Do we appreciate when the garbage truck with men lifting heavy cans in all sorts of weather is in front of our home on Thursday? Do we appreciate those who have dug dirt to place gas lines all over the landscape to get one to our home and those who have climbed tall poles to place electrical lines all over the countryside to get power to our home? Do we appreciate the men and women who stock shelves all day at the grocery store with the goodies we enjoy?

One of the aspects of appreciation is to understand or comprehend the extent or the complexity of the fulfillment of what is expected. When you do, you are automatically appreciative and there should follow a respect for the ones who 'got it done'. You might not have a chance to share with the linemen or the pipe layers a thank you, but there are many others you come in contact with, such as a policeman, a fireman, a service man or woman or a stocker with whom you can just say, "Thank you."

"In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1st Thess. 5:15

You want to know God's will for you? Here is one part directed to you and when you do it, you can be well assured that you have done God's will! Of course, we are expected to give thanks to God, for He is the constant giver, but the verse does not regulate our thanksgiving to be just to Him. When we appreciate what others have done or do regularly, I am sure that it is in the will of God to give thanks to them.

Just go about each day comprehending and don't forget to say "Thank you".