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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive. My name is Mike and this Thanksgiving week we are focusing in on

gratitude with the hopes that Thanksgiving will start to translate into

thanks living, that you and I will develop a heart that in the words of piglet from Wendy

the Pooh can hold a rather large amount of gratitude. We read this passage that Paul wrote from

prison and these are the last words you'd expect from an inmate who was unjustly incarcerated but

in philippians four he writes this i have learned how to be content with whatever i have i know

how to live on almost nothing or with everything i have learned the secret of living in every situation

whether it's with a full stomach or empty with plenty or, for I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.

You know, I love how Paul said, I have learned. I circled that in my Bible. I have learned. How do you learn anything?

You practice, right? I mean, how do you learn to play guitar? You practice. How do you learn to shoot free throws? You practice. How do you learn to become a gourmet chef? You practice. How do you learn to hit a golf ball? You practice? You learn by practicing. You learn gratitude. You learn contentment by practicing gratitude. You all ever been on one of those

glass bottom boats, maybe in Florida or off the coast of Mexico or to Caribbean? You get a crowd of

people surrounding the viewing area, excited about what they're going to see on the bottom of that boat,

but as the boat pulls away from the harbor, people start moving away from the viewing area because

there's really nothing to see.

The faster the boat goes, it all becomes just a blur.

Just below the surface gets lost in the darkness of the water.

But then the captain pulls into a cove, and he parks it next to like a coral reef, and he shuts off the engine and everything gets really, really still.

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