Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our Reading titled, ReWired by Gratitude, was written by Monica LaRose.

After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Christina Costa noticed how much of the talk around facing cancer is dominated by the language of fighting.

She found that this metaphor quickly started to feel exhausting.

She didn't want to spend over a year at war with her own body.

Instead, what she found most helpful were daily practices of

gratitude, for the teams of professionals caring for her, and for the ways her brain and body were

showing healing. She experienced firsthand that no matter how difficult the struggle, practices of

gratitude can help us resist depression

and wire our brains to help us build resilience. Costa's powerful story reminded me that practicing

gratitude isn't just something believers do out of duty. Although it's true that God deserves our

gratitude, it's also profoundly good for us.

When we lift up our hearts to say with the psalmist, praise the Lord my soul, and forget not all

his benefits, we're reminded of the countless ways God is at work, assuring us of forgiveness,

working healing in our bodies and hearts,

letting us experience love and compassion and countless good things in His creation.

While not all suffering will find complete healing in this lifetime,

our hearts can always be renewed by gratitude.

For God's love is with us from everlasting to everlasting.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Psalm 103, verses 1 through 8, and verse 17. Praise the Lord my soul,

all my inmost being praise His holy name. Praise the Lord my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the

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