I have so many things to be grateful for. Countless things--some being a wonderful hard-working husband, fabulous children, a supportive and fun extended family, great friends, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am thankful, also, for a living Prophet who loves God and heads His Church. He gave us some powerful words of wisdom about gratitude that I am reflecting on today:
"Regardless of our circumstances, each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
"This is a wonderful time to be on earth. While there is much that is wrong in the world today, there are many things that are right and good. There are marriages that make it, parents who love their children and sacrifice for them, friends who care about us and help us, teachers who teach. Our lives are blessed in countless ways.
"We can lift ourselves and others as well when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. Someone has said that “gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
"...A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort—at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude. Often we feel grateful and intend to express our thanks but forget to do so or just don’t get around to it. Someone has said that “feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” President Thomas S. Monson
Happy Thanksgiving! And thank you, dear readers, for all that you are in my life! I am richly blessed.
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