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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, November 20th, 2018.

This week on the Catholic Sproutts podcast, we are talking about thankfulness.

And I know that we are not the only ones talking about thankfulness this week.

We, however, are talking about thankfulness in the correct terms,

in the terms that include God. Yesterday, we talked about how thankfulness only makes sense with God.

There are so many things, so many mysterious and wonderful things in our life

that we can only credit to God. And therefore, while it's important to thank the many people

in our lives, it is most important to spend time in Thanksgiving to God. Today, we're going to take that one step further.

And we're going to talk about why it is not only good to thank God, but it would be downright

crazy to not thank God. Now here is the situation, my friends. We live in a world where we are told that we can be

anything we want to be and do anything we want to do. Now, in a way, this is a good message. We should have

high goals. We should really strive to be the best person that we can be, to learn as

much and do as much as we can. But the problem is, is that a lot of times our successes,

our wins, the skills that we acquire. We think that we acquired these things all on our own, that we ran the

race exclusively on our own skills. And when we believe these things, when we fall so deeply

in love with ourselves, we become very proud. And we also become crazy. Because we know,

don't we? We know that we aren't responsible for our own creation. We know that we didn't

think ourselves into being. We know that we are

wondrously and mysteriously made by a God who loves us. And that not only happened at the moment

that we were born, it happens every moment of our life. Every ability that we have,

every skill we refine, and even every success that comes our way is not really our doing, is it?

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