The
fruit of gratitude and thankfulness are joy, confidence and trust. Before we unpack this, let’s look at the
convergence of gratitude and thankfulness as they connect with joy, confidence
and trust:
Gratitude
exemplifies thankfulness,
Thankfulness
enables joy,
Joy
embraces confidence,
Confidence
empowers trust,
Trust
encourages gratitude.
Gratitude
Exemplifies Thankfulness
These
two have to be synonymous. They breed a great deal of virtue. Joy, confidence
and trust follow. Joy to embrace the confidence we all lack from time to time.
Confidence to do what we need to do but find at times is impossible. Trust to
continue on in faith when we’re tempted to camp by disappointment and complaint.
Thankfulness
Enables Joy
A
thankful heart creates sparks of joy. As
privilege enables addiction, and hardship enables reflection, so thankfulness
enables joy. And once joy is propelled
in the voluminousness of grateful thankfulness, it finds no rest until it
emerges confident.
Joy Embraces
Confidence
Joy
sees confidence as a willing partner and decides to couple arms with it. Joy views confidence as kin. Out of confidence, joy is able to surpass tremulous
doubting and go on in blissful, divine and anointed trust. No looking back.
Confidence
Empowers Trust
Trust
is an outcome of a hope effused with confidence. Trust doesn’t deny the hazards for action and
inaction strewn everywhere, but decides risks are worthy of the confidence with
which she is embodied. Trust goes. Trust is the action of faith.
Trust
Encourages Gratitude
In going forth into the action or inaction of wisdom, trust is
confident enough to be grateful, in advance, for the future things that are
coming. And that’s the being of
gratitude. Gratitude is a being thing. It’s not a thinking thing, gratitude is a
doing thing.
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Thankfulness embodies joy, impels confidence
and effuses trust, and joy, confidence and trust empower gratitude.
© 2016 Steve Wickham.
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