an extract from the book - the 7 laws of spiritual success by Selwyn Hughes.
on the chapter on Count Your Blessings
"Many years ago i remember hearing Corrie Ten Boom speak in a church in London. She and her family lived through the Nazi holocaust and they hid Jewish people in their home who otherwise might have been killed. Eventually she and her older sister Betsy were placed in a Nazi prison camp and it was such a flea-ridden place that she couldn't stand it.
One night, as they were praying and reading the Bible, Betsy said, " It says here in the first book of Thessalonians that we are to give thanks in everything."
'Well,' said Corrie, 'I can't give thanks for the fleas.'
Betsy responded, ' Well then, let's give thanks that we are together. Most families have been split up.'
Corrie thought, 'Well, I can do that but i cannot thank God for the fleas.;
Much later Corrie found out that one of the reasos why she and her sister were not molested by the guards (as were many of the women) was because their captors were so repulsed by the fleas they would not enter the room.
Corrie said, 'Every day since i discovered that i have given thanks to God for those fleas' "
Just wanna ask you guys... is there something in life that it seems so impossible to thank God for? if there is... think about it. maybe it's time to give thanks for it.
