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Okay. This is a first for me so I'm gonna ask you people to tell me what I could do better.

Religions are made in lots of varieties. I am a firm believer of Christianity. Many of you may not agree with my belifs but I'm just trying to share what I know so others can know as well.Do you ever notice the small things that just make you happy. You know the little surprises that you sometimes don't even realize. These and the BIG things are all blessed to you by God. He wants us to realize this and be gratefull to Him for them. There are three dimensions to being gratefull.

The Three Dimensions of Gratefullness.

1)Thankfullness:God gave us surprises and we should be thankfull for them.
John 6:5-13 tells us about how Jesus was preaching to people and then his diciples told him he should let them go home because many were hungry and they had no food for them. He questioned them on where to get the food but they couldn't afford it. He already had everything planned out and was testing them this way. One diciple, Andrew, spoke to him saying a boy with five small barley loves and two small fish. Jesus told everyone to sit down. Jesus took the loves and distributed them to 5'000 people and did the same with the fish. After all that there was still some leftover! God does this for us to show us we're never alone. God wants us to be thankfull for the little things.
2)Gratefullness:This is the result of someone doing something for you when they didn't have to. Luke 19:1-10 tells us about A tax collecter named Zacchaeus that wanted to see Jesus so he climbed a tree to find him over the crowd. Jesus saw him and told him to come down and asked to have a meal with him. At this Zacchaeus said "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possesions to the poor and if I have cheated anyone I will pay him back four times that amount." Everyone including Zacchaeus himself was gratefull for this.
3)Indebtedness:Yeah I know it sounds wierd but hang with me.Indebtedness shows us that God has a personal interest in all of us. He wants us to make our lives living sacrifces to show how gratefull we are to Him.
Romans 12:1--"There fore, I urge you brtohers, in veiw of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship."

Overall, a life of gratefullness, thankfullness, and indebtedness gives God exceeding joy.