Taste and See: Recipe for a Thankful Heart

“Taste and see that the Lord is good.” Psalm 34:8a (ESV)

What are your favorite recipes? Have you ever told your kids, grandkids, or even picky adults, how they need to taste and see if they like a particular food?

I sure have. And it always follows with this, “How do you know whether you like it until you taste and see?”

But I plead guilty, too. Because I’m a texture person and sometimes it looks like the texture of a particular food is outside my comfort zone. 🙂

Whether it’s our favorite foods or trying something new, recipes assist in the desired result. And our hopes that everyone will Taste and see it is good.

Every Thanksgiving, I follow a special recipe to make my Grandmother Clarkston’s lemon pie. Yum! It’s my favorite dessert of all time!  She passed away a few months shy of 100. So it brings up so many special memories of her when I make it.

Taste and See Recipe

Recipes always call for measurements—a cup of this or a tablespoon of that. Likewise, we often make other measures in life. 

A real thankful heart never comes easy, much less during difficult years experienced in the world or our own personal world.

Because last Thanksgiving, our granddaughter, who was 6 at the time, had major inner ear surgery. By early spring, she had the same procedure again to correct issues not healing correctly.

While we were thankful doctors discovered the growth, discouragement crept in. Especially since she will never hear out of that ear again without hearing aid.

Hard circumstances affect our thankfulness, if we let them. Yes, we choose. Just as we choose to follow a recipe, we make a choice to keep our heart thankful toward God. Because HE. Is. Good.

Our circumstances never dictate true thankfulness in our heart.

So let’s look at a recipe for a T-H-A-N-K-F-U-L heart.

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Thankful Heart Recipe

T – Taste and see that the Lord is good. (Psalm 34:8)

The first bite of lemon pie always reminds me of its goodness. Similarly, God reminds us over and over He’s a good, good Father. God alone is reason enough to give thanks.   

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