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Nov26— Week Three: A Week of Thankfulness and Gratitude

Mandi
Nov 26, 2025
3 min read

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

Deuteronomy 8:2

And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

2 Corithians 1:10

He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him, we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

Reflection

In Deuteronomy 8, God instructs Israel to remember their wilderness years, not to shame them, but to show them that He carried them when they had no ability to carry themselves. The wilderness exposed their limitations, but it also revealed God’s sustained care.

Paul echoes this in 2 Corinthians 1:10, saying God “has delivered us, will deliver us again, and continues to deliver.” He’s describing a pattern, not an isolated event.

Some gratitude isn’t about celebrating what’s going well. It’s about acknowledging what God brought you out of. For those who have faced medical fear, loss, relational collapse, emotional exhaustion, or trauma, gratitude often looks like recognizing the parts of your story where you genuinely didn’t know how you’d make it through, but you did.

This type of gratitude grounds your faith. It reminds you that you’re not standing where you stand today because you were strong, but because God was faithful. This is a reminder that the same God who sustained you in seasons of desperation is the same God overseeing the one you’re in now.