David Ordoñez releases official video for Gracias
The video accompanies a song by EXALTADO that thanks God even when nothing is going well.
The official video for Gracias, by singer David Ordoñez, is on his YouTube channel. The song is part of the album EXALTADO and puts gratitude in an uncomfortable place: not in triumph, but in the difficult morning.
The chorus that doesn't promise everything will be okay
The chorus says it without decoration: "Even when everything is not okay, I give you thanks." It doesn't fit in a filtered story or a three-word phrase. The lyrics go over a before and after: someone who couldn't take it anymore, who was lifted up, who received light when they saw no way out.
It also talks about every heartbeat and every step as a reminder of care. And there's a detail that changes the meaning: gratitude comes after mercy, not before success.
«Gratitude comes after mercy, not before success.»
That order matters. The Bible doesn't ask us to pretend pain doesn't exist; the psalms show it, with complaint, crying and trust in the same book. Biblical gratitude coexists with tears and doesn't cover them with a smile.
Christ is not a formula for good days; He is the one who sustains gray days too. When faith leans on results—work or followers—any stumble brings it down. When it leans on God, thankfulness survives bad news.
Against forced positivity on social media
Platforms reward the happy face: the trip and the achievement. Pain barely has space to be posted. That's why a song that gives thanks at dawn is uncomfortable: it dismantles that forced positivity that confuses faith with being in a good mood.
For those who live between two cultures and two languages, the pressure to show a resolved life is double. You post in English for some and in Spanish for others, and in neither can you tell about the hard week. A song like this opens another space: the space of honesty that gives thanks without covering anything up.
A song doesn't change your circumstances. It can change the phrase you close the day with.
Jeremiah wrote in the midst of ruin: "They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:23, ESV). He didn't say it on a comfortable day.
Paul insisted on something similar: "Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:18, ESV). Giving thanks in everything is not giving thanks for everything. It is recognizing where the mercy that reaches you today comes from.
A concrete step for this week
Before going to sleep, write down on your phone one single thing you had today and didn't earn: the roof, the food, a conversation or a forgiveness. Name it before God and thank Him for it. Repeat the exercise for seven days.
Tell someone from your church what you wrote. Gratitude holds up better when it is said out loud and others hear it. If the week gets heavy, say that too: asking for prayer is not weakness.
Gratitude doesn't depend on the week turning out perfect. It depends on God still being good. This week, why can you give thanks even if not everything is okay?
