Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide.
The season of thankfulness!
It is easy to identify November as the month where we will feast on turkey, gravy, and stuffing. But, what if we all celebrated Thanksgiving, all month, creating new mindset habits.
This year, we have added something new. The beginning of our homeschool day has always started with some sort of Christian devotion. This fall, I will admit, we have been in a devotion slump and have been recycling through some old devotions. But, we have all been hungry to get back into something new and fresh. I turned our 16 year old daughter loose with finding something that spoke to her and would work in our family setting and she ordered us all Gratitude Journal devotions. We are super excited to dive in and reach a deeper level of gratefulness in our hearts and minds.
However, we have a favorite thankfulness habit we developed a few years ago, Our family started a simple morning tradition of writing down what we were thankful for that day on a little slip of paper. It could be as simple as one word or an entire sentence. Daily, we would place those little slips of paper in our “Thankful Jar”. Then on Thanksgiving we pour the slips of paper on to the table and read those bits and pieces of what we were thankful during those ordinary days. We try to guess who contributed each piece. We absolutely love this tradition that we have carried forward! It is simple and every family can do it!
While the world is so dark and loud, we are going to focus on the love and light we have right here in our own home and hearts.
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