It's a recurring theme here and that is Jesus is genius and his way of living that he gives us is genius. It's a better way of living. Here's another study about a completely unrelated thing you think.

It's about how acts of kindness are helpful for fighting depression and anxiety, so when you dig down what's an act of kindness? They say people who turn their attention to others and serve them, get a little boost.

We often think this from the Ohio State University, we often think that people with depression have enough to deal with, so we don't want to burden them by asking them to help others, but these results run counter to that.

Professor explains, doing nice things for people, like a serving people, and focusing on the needs of others may actually help people with depression and anxiety feel better about themselves. I'm somebody who struggles with that, and I know that's true. It's 100% true, but again, Jesus is not just telling us so that we'll humble ourselves, which is a big part of it, but it's like this is better for us to live this way. You serve people it's mentally healthy way to live.

Here's something else to be thankful for. We're talking about things we can be thankful for. A lot of times we're going to think about a list of things to be thankful for. How about this? Be thankful. You're not in charge of the future. It's not your department. There's a lot of stuff that's messed up in the world, but we just need to focus on today, not everything extending out indefinitely for millions of years.

Things that come across my path today, so when Jesus keeps emphasizing us, sometimes we don't get it. He's like, pray like this, or give us your daily bread. It's today. He's saying, don't worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow takes care of itself. There's enough problems. You'll encounter that tomorrow, but for now, this is your life. Be like the birds. They don't think about tomorrow. You don't have to. Imagine just whatever God brings across my path today.

That's what I'm doing. It's a much better way to live.

Time for another flashback. Some people are going to get this. Some people won't, but since we're in X, we just feel like young people need to know how we live. Sure.

So you're probably where we did not have smartphones or kids. No more tablets. That's right. So at breakfast, what do you read?

You fight with your brother over who gets to read the back of the cereal box? Yeah. That's what we did. Yeah. And it was a major brawl. It was. I read this. Are you done with that one yet? No.

But you would. And you would do it every day. Yeah. It was the same thing. Right. It was the same. And our income bracket. It wasn't even the real fruitless. So it didn't get the real 2K. And we get like Jim.

We did squirrel or whatever. And he still wanted to read it. It'd be like fruity circles. And we're still like, hey, I want to read what Jim has to say.

Talking about stuff to be thankful for that maybe you weren't thinking about. If you're thinking of a list to be thankful for, there's a whole lot more. I was thinking about this. How about this? Be thankful for.

Be thankful that all the beauty that we experience right now through nature, through art, music, like on and on. The joy that we can feel right now in certain things. It's all the nearest hint of what's to come.

It's just a slight taste, just like wetting your appetite. See us Lewis talked about that. Like we're just getting drops of what what being with God is going to be like just a slice of his head.

But pretty soon it's not just be drops. It's going to be like you're going to be at the fountain head. It's going to be gushing out. It's going to like we're just getting the tiniest hit.

So that's not to be thankful for all the beauty that's available to us now. Just a hint.

Things we can be thankful for we've been talking about this stuff that sometimes we might forget to be thankful for and never even think about it. How about this? I'm really thankful for this.

Nobody else controls your character. Nobody controls my character. I get to decide who I'm becoming.

It's based on what I pay attention to where I set my mind, but nobody can people can do all sorts of stuff. But ultimately this is me and what I decide to do with my brain and with the Lord.

I'm really thankful for that. I think about like memorizing scripture, remembering songs that point to God's truth. It's like nobody can take that from me. I have that. And that's something no matter what the circumstances are, it doesn't change it.

I was surprised by this 40% of Mary couples get this 40% say they argue over the right way to load the dishwasher.

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