Abounding

Abounding in Thanksgiving
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and
built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught,
abounding in thanksgiving.
Col. 2:6-7

Since the phrase "abounding in thanksgiving" is not in my everyday vocabulary, I decided to embark on a synonym word search and found some interesting phrases:

be alive in gratitude  

be knee deep in thanksgiving  

be up to one's ears in gratefulness 

So here's my deduction: when I am deficient in gratitude, I probably don't even have my big toe in God's pail of goodness and grace, but when I am alive in thanksgiving I am more than knee deep in it!  You could even say I'm up to my ears in it!  

So what is the measurement of my gratitude today?  

And yours?

Let's choose to abound in thanksgiving!

© 2015 Lana Gray