in this moment.

I love to plan ahead. I always want to know what the next step is. But I am following a God who very often only reveals His plans to me moment by moment. I am reading a book, One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp right now that is teaching me to be thankful in the moment by moment revelation. The entire book seems to revolve around 1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Just today I have read several quotes in the book that jumped out and convicted me in my ungratefulness.

• "Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else."
• "You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies -- though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is." - Caussade
• "Feelings work faster than thoughts. The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling."
• "The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing with us." - McConkey
• "But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping."
•   "But the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is."