I'm Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

I was thinking about this recently about how I approach gifts, like the things you

present, gifts, abilities.

But one of the things I do with gifts is sometimes I have a tendency to take gifts for

granted.

This might be a problem that a lot of people have.

We take gifts for granted.

What I mean by that is this.

It's not that we're not appreciative.

It's not that we're not like, oh, that's nice.

It's this.

It's I often don't think about gifts until they're gone.

For example, I don't often think about the gift of my health until I'm sick.

I don't often think about the fact that like, no, I can run until like, oh, my knee hurts,

I can't run.

I don't often think about the fact that I have time until I have no time.

And then it just becomes complaint.

So I was thinking about this, but do we appreciate the gifts when we have them?

And I'm not talking just like your huge gifts.

I mean your daily gifts as an example.

If you can listen to this, if you're listening to this right now, that means your ears work.

But when was the last time I thought, oh, my gosh, God, thank you so much, that my ears

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