BEING THANKFUL

1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Things don't always work out quite how we would like do they? On my birthday we planned to go for a coffee to Matlock and then on up through the high moors of  Derbyshire for a day trip as a treat, as we hadn't had a day out for months. We enjoyed a lovely coffee and scone in the garden centre, then drove into town for a browse round. Unfortunately we discovered we then had a flat tyre so we had to change the wheel as the local tyre place had a queue of an hour and a half for repairs!

Now at that point we had a choice. Do we get all bent out of shape because our plans for my birthday had all gone wrong or do we try to find the good? It's a bit like Polyanna isn't it? Try to find something to be thankful for! So...we were thankful it wasn't raining, thankful it wasn't as cold as it has been while I hung around while Chris fixed it, thankful we weren't on the motorway when it happened and thankful we found a car park away from everybody so Chris could change the tyre in peace and quiet.

We'd already had a happy time at the garden centre so we were thankful for that and came on home. I was disappointed and a bit sad but then in the afternoon our daughter came with flowers and cream cakes as an extra surprise unexpectedly which really made my day. If we'd stayed out all day we would have missed her so you see all things work together for good don't they?

God is so good to us and can turn even a flat tyre around in the end and God willing there is always another day. Yesterday we were so grateful the tyre could be repaired and didn't need a new expensive one so the Lord even went ahead in that.

So next time your plans go haywire, remember my birthday expedition, and try to find something in it all to be thankful for and know God will sort it all out for your good in the end.😊