8 Ingredients for a Thankful Heart

Do you have favorite recipes? I sure do. Whether it’s our favorite foods or trying something new, recipes assist in the desired result. And it’s fascinating how all the specific ingredients work together to make a tasty food.

Every Thanksgiving, I gather the ingredients and follow a special recipe to make my Grandmother Clarkston’s lemon pie.

Yum! It’s my favorite dessert of all time! With our thankful holiday just around the corner, this mouth-watering pie is a must have for me.

Recipe Measures and Ingredients

Recipes always call for measurements—a cup of this or a tablespoon of that. Likewise, we often make other measures in life. 

In the last few years, we experienced the pandemic and other life-altering events. So now, more than ever before, putting the right measures in place help stir up a thankful heart.

Stirring up a Thankful Heart

But where do we find the recipe for a thankful heart? What ingredients work together to make a heart full of thanksgiving?

A real thankful heart never comes easy. Because we don’t have to look far to see devastation, need, loss, hurt, lack and hopelessness. 

You see, these factors only affect our heart if we allow it. We decide whether our hearts turn hard toward God or thankful. 

Our circumstances never dictate true thankfulness in our heart.

Our circumstances never dictate true thankfulness in our heart. Share on X

So here are eight ingredients to stir up a T-H-A-N-K-F-U-L heart.

Thankful Heart Ingredients

T – Taste and see that the Lord is good. (Psalm 34:8)

The first bite of lemon pie always reminds me of its goodness. Similarly, God reminds us over and over He’s a good, good Father. God alone is reason enough to give thanks.   

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