Thanks

Things I wish I had said

• The worst moment for the atheist is when he really is thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. William Shakespeare

Thanksgiving Proclamation

We have been a most favored people.

We ought to be a most grateful people.

We have been a most blessed people.

We ought to be a most thankful people.

Calvin Coolidge

I like this prayer by George Herbert.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give one thing more-a grateful heart.

 

One day when I was homeless, living out of my car I was feeling sorry for myself, thinking of all that I didn’t have. The more I considered them the more depressed I got. I cried out to the Lord and I heard in my heart “Don’t you have anything you can be thankful for?” It brought me up short. OK what did I have? I had the car, I wasn’t sleeping in a cardboard box. I had gas so if the temperature got too uncomfortable I could turn on the engine and fix that, I had snack food. I had my health… and as I started to think about those blessings more came to mind. A spirit of thankfulness came on me and my emotions became more and more positive.

Sometimes in hard times it is easy to forget the good times. When we suffer lack it is easy to forget our blessings. But the good times happened and the blessings exist. Remember, “God is good” is not a catch phrase. It is reality.

 

BE THANKFUL

YOU’RE BLESSED