Would you not be disappointed if you gave a valuable gift to someone and they did not show appreciation and instead complained?

Would you then feel like not giving such gifts to them anymore?

Each day is a gift that our Creator does not have to give us, but when He does, we should be thankful, He really did not have to do that.

But since He did anyway, it makes more sense to give thanks and use this gift to the best of our abilities.

To complain instead is to invite the second sentence above.

Lent is a great motivator to put your life in order.
You can find a daily Lenten thought by choosing the Archive links at the right side, starting with 2009 February.