Nov24— Week Three: A Week of Thankfulness and Gratitude

Finding gratitude in every season, even the ones that felt heavy.

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Introduction

Healing is often talked about in terms of food, supplements, routines, and protocols. Those things matter. But they are not the whole story.

Chronic illness affects more than the body. It affects confidence, identity, hope, and faith. It changes how we see ourselves and how we relate to God.

For many of us, the hardest part of healing isn’t what we eat, it’s learning how to keep trusting when our bodies don’t cooperate. It’s learning how to stay hopeful when progress feels slow. It’s learning how to feel safe in a body that has scared us.

That is why these devotionals exist.

Daily Bread is a space to check in with your spirit — not just your symptoms. It is a place to remind yourself that God is near, that you are not alone in what you’re walking through, and that healing is not something you have to force.

This Week’s Focus: Thankfulness and Gratitude

This week, we’re slowing down enough to notice what we’ve rushed past. Gratitude is not a shallow mindset shift, it is a spiritual reset. It clears the fog, softens what’s hardened, and opens our eyes to the quiet, steady ways God has been caring for us all along.

Gratitude is not pretending things are perfect; it’s acknowledging that God has been present, faithful, and generous even in the spaces that still feel unfinished.

Thankfulness anchors you when your emotions shift. It grounds you when you feel overwhelmed. It realigns your spirit with truth when your circumstances feel loud. And in seasons of healing, especially when your body feels fragile or unpredictable, gratitude becomes a form of worship that gently pulls your heart back toward hope.

This week, we’re practicing a gratitude that goes deeper than good moments or good days. A gratitude that remembers. A gratitude that notices. A gratitude that breathes slowly enough to recognize: God has carried me. God is carrying me. And God will continue to carry me.

May this be a week where your spirit loosens its grip, your eyes notice what they’ve overlooked, and your heart learns again how to see the goodness of God, not just in the big things, but in every small mercy that meets you exactly where you are.

Today's Scripture

Psalm 103: 1-5:

Bless the Lord, O my siul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life in the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

Give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Reflection

David doesn’t tell his soul to “try harder.” He tells it to remember.

Because the human heart forgets so easily, not out of rebellion, but out of survival.

Chronic illness, stress, disappointment, delayed answers, all of these things can shrink your world until it feels like nothing good is happening at all.

But gratitude widens your sight line again. Not to erase what’s hard, but to remind you of what’s still true. God has been faithful, God has carried you, God has protected you from things you didn’t even know were coming, God has provided-sometimes quietly-sometimes dramatically, and God has never stopped being good to you.

“Forget not His benefits” is not a command to overlook your pain, but it’s an invitation to remember His kindness. “give thanks in all circumstances” doesn’t mean you have to love the circumstance, it means God is still working in it.

Gratitude is the lens that helps your spirit see clearly again.

Today, shift your focus. Remember what He’s done. Name one thing you’re thankful for, even if it feels small.

The small things are often the loudest evidence of His love.

If This Spoke to You

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Wishing you a Great Day Ahead,

Mandi 🤍