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"Praising and giving thanks" - Editorial Letter from Community 2017 Edition 3
Our motto for the year, namely “Glory be to God, our Father”, contains three tasks which we have resolved to perform in the year 2017. Once we have become aware of the magnitude of God and His creation — which was the first of these tasks — we will want to praise God and give thanks to Him. Given the knowledge that we have gained in so doing, the wrong response would be to remain motionless, inactive, and mute.
Praising God and giving thanks — how do we succeed at this in concrete terms in our daily life?
We give thanks to God through our willingness to sacrifice. This is not just a matter of money. It is all about the gratitude we feel toward God. We are grateful to God and give Him back a portion of that which we have received from Him in the first place.
We also give thanks to God through our willingness to reconcile. Since we are thankful to God for His grace and forgive-ness, we are also prepared to forgive our neighbor.
We can also give thanks to God by serving Him. We do not serve God because we wish to earn something or get some-thing from Him. We serve Him because we have already received everything from Him, because He has promised to make us His heirs!
Now that we have recognized the magnitude of God and His creation, let us glorify God and give thanks to Him for His grace and loving care. We can thank Him through our willingness to sacrifice, our preparedness to reconcile, and by serving Him and our neighbor.