Christian Parenting.

Christian Parenting.

Hey friends, welcome back to Pardon the Mess.

I'm your host, Courtney DeFayo.

Happy Thanksgiving week.

I don't know what your week is like, but I get Ella home, which I'm so excited. I've been waiting for this to have her in the house again for a week, and I've just missed her so much. And so normally we travel. We go either to my family's, my mom and dad's house, or Ron's mom and dad, because we've lived so far from family that we always try to go back and visit everybody at Thanksgiving. And that means y'all I've never really cooked Thanksgiving, maybe once or twice, but I've just been mooching off people for all these years. And I wonder why I can't cook. But I started thinking, I'm like, I can do this. I really can do this. And so Ron and I were talking, the girls and I were talking, like maybe we each pick our favorite thing and we cook together. And then Ron reminded me, I'm out of another, I got out of it again because we're going to the Cowboys game. And because Ron's company is a sponsor of the Cowboys, they invited us to come Thanksgiving Day to the game with the Chiefs. I'm hoping Taylor Swift will walk by, and I can just give her a little hug and say, I'm thankful for you, Taylor. Probably won't see her, but Post Malone is playing, and Ron's like, why didn't they ask me? Because y'all know he's in a band. He's like, I wonder if they need me to play the drums. but all of that to say, I'm really excited for it to be the four of us

and just have a few days at home mixed with the Cowboys game. All right. So thankful heart. I love

that we so perfectly plan, the Christian parenting people put this as the week to talk about

thankfulness and gratitude with the story of the healed leper. Let me read us Psalm 9,

1 to 2. I will praise you, Lord, with all of my heart. I will tell you of all the marvelous

things you have done. I will be filled with joy because of you. I will sing praises to your name

oh most high. And in the story of the healed leopard, it is in Luke where Jesus heals about 10 men that have leprosy.

And the lepers saw him coming.

They're calling out to him.

But only one of them thanked him.

Only one of them went back to thank him and praised him with the loud voice.

And I think that's an interesting point about gratitude.

And later in the verses, it actually says

that God was disappointed in the nine. I've really never remembered that part of the story,

that it literally says God was disappointed. And I'm such a people pleaser. I'm like,

Lord, don't be disappointed in me. But yeah, he does care that we are expressing thankfulness

and gratitude to him. And for all that he's done

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