Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our hearts.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Happy Thanksgiving, friends. Is anyone listening today? I bet a few of you loyal listeners are and some of you have come back and are

listening later. You've already had all the turkey you can take and the leftovers might even be

thrown out by now. I hope you have the best day today celebrating with people you love or are serving

in your place of influence. We've been talking all month about parenting and I love this one of my

favorite subjects because it's one of my favorite things in life to month about parenting, and I love this, one of my favorite subjects,

because it's one of my favorite things in life to do. My husband and I love being parents together,

so, so fun. Gone by way too fast, by the way. But one of the things we've battled, like so many of you,

in this day and time with everything at our fingertips, how in the world do we raise kids that are not entitled?

Is that even possible? I think Thanksgiving has a lot to do with it actually, and no, not the

holiday, but the attitude of gratitude that is associated with it, because it's hard to feel

entitled when you're constantly grateful and speaking gratitude about what you have. Don't you agree?

Let's just take a couple of minutes to speak into it on this special day.

I'll tell you, nothing gets you more back to reality and appreciative of your life than moments

when you're without. When I traveled to El Salvador for the first time and had drinks without ice, I don't

sound silly, but I've never thought twice about ice until I lived without it. And oh, I missed it so

much. When I slept in a bunk and a room with a gritty floor in Honduras, I missed my bed so much.

But other times I've appreciated my life,

even when I was in the midst of living it, that's something that I've tried to really do is

appreciate sunsets and green grass and all of that. I do love nature and seeing God in it. And

I think that's really the key, helping our kids appreciate their life and the gifts of their life, even in the day

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