thankful

I am grateful for the grace to see, to hear, to talk, to feel, to smell, to taste and to walk.

As long as I live, I can only be grateful.

It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children__ laughter, birdsongs, and the like. The challenge is recognizing things of value in the dark, sour, uglier parts of life. But if you look hard enough, you will find that even tough times offer pearls worthy of gratitude.

To be content is to count your blessings.

If you woke up tomorrow to only the things you've expressed your gratitude for today, then what would be missing from your life in the morning?

I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.

When you feel thankful, you can be appreciative for a moment, then not at all the next. It seems the tank is full, then it becomes empty, and the cycle continues. If you don't feel the same gratitude for a moment, know that it's possible in the next moment that comes around.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the __ift of life_ if we ever hope to be thankful for the __ifts_ of life.

Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it__ appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life.

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

If I continually focus on what I don__ have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it__ completely full.

It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.

I shouldn__ complain about God__ mercy to others while thanking Him for His mercy to me. I shouldn__ commit the sin of pride by justifying my rebellion or my running from God compared to other people__ sin. Who am I to be angry at what the angels in Heaven rejoice in?

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things __ow_ or wait until __hen.

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I__e recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.