2. What does ungratefulness look like? Why should we have a attitude of gratitude? How do move from ungratefulness to gratitude?

3. Start: It is with regret that I inform you that you are being laid off from your position Ending: Best wishes for success in your future endeavors.

8. Gratitude impacts your health!!!!!

9. StudyDate Keeping a gratitude journal 16% fewer physical symptoms 19% more time spent exercising 10% less physical pain 5% more sleep 25% increased sleep quality Counting Blessing vs Burdens 2003 Gratitude visits reduced symptoms of depression by 35% Gratitude journal reduced symptoms of depression by 30% Positive Psychology Progress 2005 Significant reduction in hypertension symptoms if patients counted their blessings once a week. Gratitude: Effects on Perspective and Blood Pressure 2007 Levels of gratitude significantly correlated with levels of energy Many

10. We shine like stars Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. Philippians 2:14-16

11. We experience more of the presence of God Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Psalms 100:4

12. Keep a gratitude journal Keep your eyes on Jesus and not your circumstances Know God is sovereign and desires good for us

13. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Romans 8:31-33