Attitude of Gratitude: Who or what are you grateful for?
:] i am greatful for the good and the bad cause without the bad would there be good? and everything that has happend to me made me who i am today and i think i am a pretty good person :]
What do you say to a person who shows absolutely no gratitude or even little acknowledgement for the biggest help you had given to that person?
I can understand being upset by people like that. However, do you help others for the thank you? or because you just want to help because it is in your nature?I think there are different kinds of people. Most of us would like to help others because it is in us, part of our personality.The truth is that whatever goes round comes round. So therefore when you help others, regardless of whether they deserve that help or not, whether they are grateful or not, whether they thank you or not, be sure that when you need help, someone will surely help you out. That someone could be a total stranger, or someone you never expected help from. This is how the world works.You would hardly ever get help back from those you help. At least this is my own experience in life. Does it matter? Not really.If it really upsets you that the people you help are ungrateful, then stop doing it. Instead help others who appreciate you and appreciate the help and time you are giving them. Those are probably more deserving of your giving.Know in your heart, that whatever good you do will always be returned. It’s called Karma :)
Why doesn't the Lord's Prayer include thanksgiving?
It does seem odd, given the Apostle Paul’s exhortation in 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 to “pray without ceasing” and to “give thanks in all circumstances,” that the Lord’s Prayer does not include instructions for thanksgiving. Furthermore, it seems especially odd seeing that Jesus models thanksgiving in prayer all throughout the gospels – in particular when He gives thanks to God so many times and in so many circumstances as He models prayer. Jesus thanks God for the meals that He provides, including the miraculous feeding of the 5000 (Matthew 14:16-21) and the 4000 (Matthew 15:35-38). He gave thanks for the cup and the bread eaten at the Last Supper (Acts 27:35). He thanked God for hearing His request to raise Lazarus from the dead (John 11:41). He even thanked the Father from keeping the secrets of the kingdom from the wise and revealing them to the poor, the ignorant and the obscure (Matthew 11:25). Yet, He leaves thanksgiving out of the Lord’s Prayer. Many of us were raised with the acronym ACTS (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication) as a model for prayer. In other words, before we pray to God for our needs, we ought to praise Him for what He has done, confess our sins before Him, and offer thanks for His grace and mercy. When we look at the Lord’s Prayer, we see the A, C and S, but no T. If we examine the passage in which we find the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13), we first note why Jesus was teaching the disciples to pray a certain way. Jesus was critiquing the way the Pharisees prayed. They prayed out in the open where all could see and hear. This was a way to show the public how holy and pious they were. Jesus condemns this way of praying by saying that “they have their reward,” the reward of being seen by men. Jesus is not condemning public prayer, only the practice of praying with the goal of being “seen by men.” We also see Jesus critiquing the way the Gentiles prayed by constantly praying the same thing over and over again as if to make sure their god heard them, such as the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18. Read the rest here http://www.gotquestions.org/Lords-prayer...