Givng thanks for grace in the unexpected

Are you a cynic, or a person who is looking for joy? Ann Voskamp and her extended family celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada. They find a spot in the woods. It makes sense that Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving earlier than Americans, because it is colder up there. Ann writes,

Anybody can be a cynic. Cynicism is laziness in every way.

The real heroes are the ones who never stop looking for the possibility of joy.

There are always the quiet revolutionaries who give thanks for grace in the unexpected.

There are always the real revolutionaries who know this overthrows all the pressing dark.

There are, even now, the revolutionaries who know salvation is no cheap gift; they know what they were saved for. They choose to give glory with the breaths given. They choose to be married to amazement because only amazing grace divorces souls from the dark.