I don’t take my husband for granted at Christmas time because I know there’s always the chance he may not get to spend it with us next year.
I don’t take my house for granted this year; with our unemployment situation in its 18th month, I don’t assume we will always have it.
I don’t take my parents or my inlaws for granted this year. All of us are getting older and just hearing about other families who have lost loved ones this month, I’m reminded that we need to value the time we have with one another.
I don’t take the freedoms God has blessed us with in this country for granted. There seem to be too many attempts in recent years to take them away, and those efforts may one day succeed.
I don’t take for granted the opportunity I have to pray to and worship God: in my house, in my church, at the table in a restaurant before a meal. Knowing the persecution others are experiencing on a daily basis in other parts of the world to do these very things makes me grateful that I can and ashamed that I don’t do it more.
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