Be Thankful Always!

So we do church services in the Juvenile Detention Center about twice a month and I will say, I probably have felt the presence of God in those services ALMOST more than I have Anywhere else! It's an amazing collision of young people sold out for Jesus sharing how He has changed their lives and young people full of anger but desperately seeking love from anyone. If they grasp onto love from THIS source, NOTHING will be the same. So yesterday, since we had a large group of amazing people who came to pour out love and minister in ways they are gifted in, I got to spend time one on one with a young girl. She is facing some possibly difficult news this Tuesday, so I forced us both to practice being thankful always! We went back and forth, one at a time saying something we were thankful for or saying a phrase in which we told God how Awesome he is and why! About 5 sentences in, our pace slowed down, not because we couldn't think of anything, but because we were talking through tears. Tears of thankfulness and feeling blessed! Guess this excercise worked! There was no time or energy left to worry. About anything.