isn’t an over-the-top optimism. It’s not about wearing a grin 24/7, having the brightest and whitest smile, or being positive Peggy (or Pete). Biblical gratitude is gritty gratitude. It’s honest about brokenness and affirms difficulties and disagreements all around, and yet, it sees reasons to give thanks in all things. It doesn’t sweep the junk of life under the carpet of ignorance, but it does find more reasons to be grateful than to grumble. The church can show how the beauty and joy of gratitude