In this moment we are surrounded by the news of the earthquake in Haiti. I’ve heard a lot about it, donated money to help, and I’m praying for the people whose lives have been severely affected. Something very interesting just happened though. I’m sitting in the airport and saw a CNN report that there was a group of Haitian people who gathered this morning (at a collapsed church) to give thanks for the gift of life that they still have despite their world falling down around them. In their tragedy they found time to say “thank you”. We could all learn a valuable lesson from the Haitian people who gathered to pray. Our personal lives may be falling or may have fallen apart right before our eyes but our job as believers is to look past our tragedy and say “thank you.”

Tell me your story. I want to know what’s fallen and what you still have in your life to be thankful for. Leave your comments here and tell a friend to do the same. We can encourage each other by telling the truth about what God’s done.

I’ll start us:

I have had a lot of heartache in the last few years (broken engagement, loss of my grandfather, loss of someone that I initially thought was a good friend) a lot of things in my world fell apart but I’m THANKFUL for the fact that God has used my heartache to be an encouragement to my audiences out on the road.

Thanks for reading,

We’ll talk soon,

Anthony Evans