"Please accept a gift from your servant.” (2 Kings 5: 15 NABRE)
How important is giving thanks for favors received in your hierarchy of virtues? Is expressing gratitude a second nature or something that is forced out of you? Expressing thanks must be very important because one of the first lessons mothers teach their infants is: "Say thank you."
After Naaman was healed of leprosy, he came back to the Prophet Elisha to do thanks not just to say "Thank you." First, he offered gifts. Though a 5-star general, he called himself a servant of the humble prophet. Last but not the least, he vowed to worship forever the God that healed him.
One of the first lessons I learned in religion is that God does not eat steak or chicken. He feeds on Thanksgiving.
In the Sunday Eucharistic celebration, the people of God gather to do Thanks for all Jesus did to set us free. Do you gather with your community or are you like one of the the nine lepers who walked away and made Jesus say:
“Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” (Luke 17: 17 - 18 NABRE)
Even God is hurt by ingratitude.
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