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UNNOTICED, NOT UNIMPORTANT: THE BLESSINGS WE FORGET

Dear Christian Girl,
The other evening, during family prayers, my younger brother said something that struck a deep chord: he pointed out how we often “regularize our blessings.” In other words, we’ve grown so used to God’s daily goodness that we begin to treat the extraordinary as ordinary. We no longer see them as miracles we just call them "normal."

But think about it how often do we pause to thank God for things like breathing without machines? For waking up in sound mind? For limbs that work, hearts that beat, and organs that function without any command from us? Somewhere along the way, we began treating the mercy of God as routine as though it’s our right.

Psalm 103:2 reminds us clearly:

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.”

That “all” includes the silent ones too the doors that opened without noise, the sicknesses we never even knew were coming, the delays that were actually divine protection. It includes grace we didn’t pray for, and favour we didn’t deserve.

Sometimes, it’s not even pride that makes us forget it’s discouragement. We become so focused on the prayers that haven’t been answered or the dreams that seem delayed, that we miss what God is doing right now. But a delayed answer does not equal divine silence. Often, He’s already made provision we just need eyes to see it.

So take a moment and ask yourself:
Are you still in awe of your daily miracles, or have they just become “expected”?

The air, the peace, the provisions, the unexpected kindness, the held-back disaster don’t normalize them. Don’t regularize them. They’re not automatic. They’re evidence of a God who is still working behind the scenes.

Let’s return to gratitude. Real, intentional gratitude. Maybe that shift in perspective is the answer to the very prayer you’ve been repeating.

With Love,
DCG Team.
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