Think of your life like a garden. Mary Cassian says there's something important you should be growing.

If you want to walk as a Christian, you need to cultivate the discipline of gratitude into your life.

So you need to understand that. And so you need to be careful to grow grateful.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For Wednesday, November 13th, I'm Dana Gresh.

So did you wake up grateful or grumbling today? And how do you wake up grateful or grumbly today?

And how do you usually wake up? What a question, right?

Well, right now, I'm grateful and excited about the guests we're going to hear from today.

She's no stranger to the Reviver Hearts world. She's a frequent guest on the program, as well as a speaker at our True Woman conferences.

She's been with us from the beginning of the True Woman Movement, and is the co-author, along with me, of the True Woman 101 and 201 Bible Studies.

She's written lots of other books, and she's an international speaker.

But you probably just know her as Mary.

Yes, that's right.

In case you haven't figured it out already, we're going to be hearing from Mary Cassian.

Several years ago, she wrote a book on Gratitude, and I think we could all use more of that.

So today we're going to dive into that topic.

But Mary's not the only one who's

written a book about being grateful. You too, Nancy. It's called choosing gratitude. And a few

years ago, you had the opportunity to live out that teaching in a pretty major way. As you know,

2020 was a hard year for everybody with the global pandemic, political unrest, and more.

That's right. But on top of that, as I've shared here before, in March of that year, my husband Robert was diagnosed with not one but two different unrelated kinds of cancer.

So that year was full of a lot of uncertainty, doctor's appointments, chemo

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