Gratitude by Jacob Johnson
It’s time for the annual high school slang staff snippet takeover…let’s see if you reached unc status this year.
Thanksgiving with the whole crew finna smack this week. I’m low-key cooked if I don’t wear the elastic waist band drip though, especially knowing Grandma’s sweet corn casserole is gonna be served. It slaps. The table’s gonna be bussin’ — serious comfort-food vibes — and I’m already planning which food I’m grabbing first out of the I don’t know 6-7 plates I dish up. Momma J’s turkey gives +10 aura, but it’s really the fellowship that is gas. This weekend is gonna be straight fire.
So how did you do? Did you read that scratching your head? Basically, I’m so excited for Thanksgiving. Aside from the yummy comfort food, it’s the quality time with family and friends and sharing what we are thankful for that really makes this one of my favorite days. This month my family has been trying to focus on the theme of gratitude. Each night at supper we go around and share things we are thankful for. Hearing what my 3-year-old is thankful for each day really brings joy to my heart. It may start with a material thing like her doll, toy, or the park, but we usually get into the more meaningful ones too like family, forgiveness, food, and a Savior who knows and loves us.
This upcoming Sunday we are going to sing one of my favorite worship songs – Gratitude by Brandon Lake. It fits so well with the theme of thankfulness and our upcoming sermon series about the King of Kings. What can we say to a King who laid down His life for us? As Psalm 95:2 says, “Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song”. When we don’t know what to say, we get to have a posture of worship and sing hallelujah — thank you Jesus — for all He has done. Here are the lyrics to the chorus of Gratitude.
So I throw up my hands
And praise You again and again
‘Cause all that I have is a hallelujah
Hallelujah
And I know it’s not much
But I’ve nothing else fit for a King
Except for a heart singing hallelujah
Hallelujah
