What Can I Do - Paul Baloche

Thanksgiving is coming up this week. For the month of November many people count blessings, or post things they are thankful for, spend time focusing on gratitude. I see it on Facebook, as people challenge each other to think of things they are thankful for, I see it in my kids classrooms as they are asked to write about things they are thankful for, I've done it in my classroom, creating a Thanksgiving turkey out of my students hands listing things they are thankful for: 

The point is that gratitude and thankfulness is a choice. That when we see the beauty and gifts around us we have to chose to be thankful. 

So what choice will you make today? What can I do but THANK you.

When I see the beauty
Of the sunset's glory
Amazing artistry
Across the evening sky
When I feel the mystery
Of a distant galaxy
It awes and humbles me
To be loved by a God so high

What can I do but thank you
What can I do but give
My life to you
Hallelujah, hallelujah
What can I do but praise you
Every day make everything I do
A hallelujah, a hallelujah
Hallelujah

When I hear the story
Of a God of mercy
Who shared humanity
And suffered by our side
Of the cross they nailed you to
That could not hold you
Now you're making all things new
By the power of your risen life