A few months before Cody was diagnosed with epilepsy, a friend told me about a book called One Thousand Gifts. The author decided to try to record 1000 gifts from God in her daily life. After reading the book, I started my own gratitude journal, keeping track of the gifts that God had given me the day before.
I have recorded at least one thing to be grateful for every day since then even when I didn’t feel like there were any. While I have recorded considerably more than 1000 gifts, it hasn’t always been easy to do. Only now as I pull it out again do I even realize there is a subtitle: