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Quiet Spaces a Heart of Thanks
From childhood, we are taught two words which help us navigate life with people and God. We begin with "Please," naming our requests and needs. We follow it up with "Thank you," an expression of gratitude. Those words never run thin, and there are few occasions where they are amiss. These pages focus on the second word and highlight the place of gratitude in our
life. Gratitude can't be confined to a seasonal remembrance. While there are national holidays and family traditions of "Thanksgiving," being grateful is a repeated expression. You don't say "I love you" just on Valentine's Day. You wouldn't affirm a child just on their birthday. We ought to express gratitude regardless of the calendar. In fact, there is no month or situation
where gratitude is out of place. Like "please and thank you," a heart of thanks is always fitting.
Our prayer at Back to the Bible Canada is that this devotional tool will be used by God to help shape a heart of thanks within every reader. May He grant us open eyes to recognize the grace we have been granted and saturate our soul with "thanks" until it is heard in our speech, seen by our smiles, proved by our actions and rises to heaven as praise.
life. Gratitude can't be confined to a seasonal remembrance. While there are national holidays and family traditions of "Thanksgiving," being grateful is a repeated expression. You don't say "I love you" just on Valentine's Day. You wouldn't affirm a child just on their birthday. We ought to express gratitude regardless of the calendar. In fact, there is no month or situation
where gratitude is out of place. Like "please and thank you," a heart of thanks is always fitting.
Our prayer at Back to the Bible Canada is that this devotional tool will be used by God to help shape a heart of thanks within every reader. May He grant us open eyes to recognize the grace we have been granted and saturate our soul with "thanks" until it is heard in our speech, seen by our smiles, proved by our actions and rises to heaven as praise.
40 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2025
About the author
John Neufeld
30 books27 followers"I always wanted to be a writer. I started writing early, and badly, sending off short stories to national magazines when I was ten or eleven. They were all returned.
"But I kept at it. All through high school and college. Everything I sent out came back. Thanks but no thanks.
"I moved to New York and worked in a publishing house. I kept writing. In fact, I was fired from my first job for spending more time on my own projects than on the publishing house's.
"I wrote on.
"In 1968, an editor from a small California publishing house and I had lunch. She gave me an outline for a story she thought I could write well. I knew immediately I had to try.
"But what I wanted to do was write a short book, full of emotion and detail and excitement, for readers of all ages. I didn't know that Edgar Allan would be regarded as a children's book.
"It was.
"And when it was, everything fell into place. The minute Edgar Allan was launched successfully, I sat down to write Lisa, Bright and Dark. It, too, was a success so there was no turning back. Although I do write books for adults, the ideas that stimulate me always seem to come to me in the form of a story for young readers. I get ideas from everywhere: from the newspapers, from radio, from lunches and talks I have with friends.
"Right now, if I never get another idea, I have more story lines to work on than my lifetime probably permits."
Both Edgar Allan and Lisa, Bright and Dark, were selected as among the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times. Lisa, Bright and Dark was filmed for television, and aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame on NBC-TV. Mr. Neufeld's other books have as recently as spring 2000 been cited as among the best of last year's Young Adult titles by the New York Public Library and YASLA.
(From: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/au...)
"But I kept at it. All through high school and college. Everything I sent out came back. Thanks but no thanks.
"I moved to New York and worked in a publishing house. I kept writing. In fact, I was fired from my first job for spending more time on my own projects than on the publishing house's.
"I wrote on.
"In 1968, an editor from a small California publishing house and I had lunch. She gave me an outline for a story she thought I could write well. I knew immediately I had to try.
"But what I wanted to do was write a short book, full of emotion and detail and excitement, for readers of all ages. I didn't know that Edgar Allan would be regarded as a children's book.
"It was.
"And when it was, everything fell into place. The minute Edgar Allan was launched successfully, I sat down to write Lisa, Bright and Dark. It, too, was a success so there was no turning back. Although I do write books for adults, the ideas that stimulate me always seem to come to me in the form of a story for young readers. I get ideas from everywhere: from the newspapers, from radio, from lunches and talks I have with friends.
"Right now, if I never get another idea, I have more story lines to work on than my lifetime probably permits."
Both Edgar Allan and Lisa, Bright and Dark, were selected as among the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times. Lisa, Bright and Dark was filmed for television, and aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame on NBC-TV. Mr. Neufeld's other books have as recently as spring 2000 been cited as among the best of last year's Young Adult titles by the New York Public Library and YASLA.
(From: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/au...)
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