Live in Thanksgiving Daily

Here are two thoughts to think about during this Thanksgiving time

Alma 34:38 says:

"That ye contend no more against the Holy Ghost, but that ye receive it, and take upon you the name of Christ; that ye humble yourselves even to the dust, and worship God, in whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that ye live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you."

And Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin in his book Press On, pg 218 said that:

"Gratitude will make you more likeable and more at peace."

Here's to being likeable and more at peace by consciously being thankful to God every single day! I dare you to write down your MANY blessings, and even try to write a new one every single day before you go to sleep. This gratitude thing is powerful and will truly change us as we let it in our lives daily. Even if it's just a little one line sentence every day, you will notice a difference.

And if you think Heavenly Father doesn't really care if you're grateful daily or not, you might want to check out D&C 59: 21.

I'm just saying...

Jeremiah

I have something to confess, I haven't really gotten a ton out of Jeremiah in these last two weeks I have been studying him. I don't know if it's because the people he was talking about were so wicked they were going to be scattered soon so I don't feel as much hope as I normally do as i study the scriptures, or that I am not as familiar with his writing style or use of words, or just that I haven't spent as much time with him in the past as I have other Old Testament prophets. Is there anyone that can help me in this regard? What do you love about Jeremiah that I am probably missing?

O.k. but regardless of that confession, I have been gleaning little things here and there, and one of those things is in Jeremiah 31:33.

It says "33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."

I do love this verse and how we are told the Lord will put the words of his law in our inward parts and write it in our hearts.

I had a religion teacher once interpret these as literal words. He said, if us as mortals and our tiny understanding of how the body and brain work can look at someone's liver and notice if they were an alcoholic or not by what is written into the liver's cells, we should not doubt that those words we memorize, those scriptures and prophetic quotes that we reread over and over again also are being written somewhere that we might not be able to see yet, but we will someday.

I like that, that these inspiring words from God that we do make an effort to bring into our lives do become a very part of our being.