Gratitude Challenge Day 1

Good morning! Welcome to our 7 Day Gratitude Challenge!

Here’s how it works: Each morning you will get an encouragement and a challenge. When you do the challenge, if you post about it and tag Amy Seiffert, you will be in to win a hand-lettered “Grateful” printable! For every post, you get another entry! The goal is to spread joy and thankfulness and to increase awareness of our full hearts and lives that we already have. Let’s get started.

Today’s Encouragement: When we shift our perspective off of ourselves and our problems and onto something much bigger than ourselves, the shift helps us to be grateful! And what better shift to have then to think about the mighty, powerful, tender, Maker of Heaven and Earth. Be encouraged, God is good, all the time. He is good in the middle of the valley and on the highest mountain. Even when things looked at their worst and Jesus was beaten and crushed, a resurrection was just around the corner. God was still good even then. We just had no idea. Let’s find the goodness all around us.

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love endures forever.

                                                                                — Ps. 118:29

Today’s Challenge: It takes 17 seconds of dwelling on a positive thought to change how we think, and then that changes how we see ourselves and the world around us. We can replace rotten thoughts with joyful ones...and become joyful humans. Today let's catch our complaints and replace them with a thought we repeat for 17 seconds. Pull out your phone and find the timer. See how long 17 seconds is as you slowly repeat one of the statements below. 

Possible 17 second gratitude thoughts:

*I love my life.

*I am so thankful for each of my children and I really like them.

*I am grateful that God is with me and He is for me.

*I am so thankful for the richness in my life.

*I am grateful that I am incredibly loved by an incredible God, no matter what I have done. He made me and loves me.  

Or if you came up with you own - let me know. Your gratitude is effecting the entire atmosphere around you! Post about your experience and tag me - I'd love to hear about it! 

See you tomorrow,

Amy