Join a FREE 5-Day Thanksgiving Challenge!

I hope you love the products and resources I recommend here at A Little R & R. Just so you know, it is possible that I get a commission and collect income from the links on this page. Click here for more info.

Do you get annoyed with the cliché Thanksgiving posts on social media?

I don’t know if you’re like me, but I do fight a niggling sense of cynicism when I see those people who’ve complained all year long suddenly posting their daily Thanksgiving posts in November.

I have tried so hard to fight against that negativity that teases the edges of my mind, because I feel like I need to give grace.

And yet, I know that a truly thankful heart is a heart ready to mature.

I love Thanksgiving.

I’ll admit that I am a stickler for keeping Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December, because I love the fact that we prepare our hearts for Christ’s advent by first cultivating it with giving thanks.

For years, like many people, I did a Thanksgiving challenge on Facebook where I daily gave thanks for the little things — and sometimes the big.

Every year it was the same, though: my husband, my children, my home, my parents….

Several years ago, I decided to get radical with my thanks.

I sat down and listed 5 unusual and challenging prayers that I wanted to thank God for that would help me dig down deep and find that deeper area of gratitude in a way I’ve never felt.

This became the foundation for my book “The Power of a Thankful Heart“, where I share my testimony about how thankfulness helped me break through spiritual barriers and cultivate a deeper walk with Christ.

Join a FREE 5-Day Thanksgiving Challenge!

When you sign up for this free Thanksgiving challenge, each day for five days, you’ll receive a message from me in your email.

Each message has a short devotional and a video lesson about how to give God thanks for the things we may not ordinarily think of.

You will also receive a free workbook to use with this challenge that will help you develop prayers of thanksgiving for:

• My salvation – Have I really stopped lately to remember what God saved me from?
• My trials – Can I really count it all joy?
• My pain – Do I really thank God even for the painful seasons of life and the lessons they teach?
• Me – Can I look in the mirror and truly thank God that He created me the way I am?
• Answered Prayers – Am I fully aware of all of the ways God is answering my prayers – even the ones I haven’t intentionally prayed?

These 5 prayers really caused me to look at my life in a whole new way.

Are you ready to take a Thanksgiving challenge?

Let’s go on a journey to cultivate a more thankful heart. It’s easy to thank God for the good things we have.

Our children, our husbands, our beautiful homes, and our great careers. It’s a lot harder to truly feel thankful for our trials, our losses, our pain, and the parts about ourselves that we really don’t like.

The parts of us we wish were invisible or that we could change — but can’t.

But a key part of spiritual maturity is learning to give thanks in all things.

In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

We will examine what Scripture has to say about each one and then pray together, giving thanks for these more challenging gifts that God has given us.

Here’s how you can join me on this 5-day challenge:

Simply sign up below, and you’ll start getting the challenge emails in your email inbox!

Resources for Thanksgiving