Giving Thanks

If you will indulge me during this Thanksgiving Season. I would like to share my thoughts about giving thanks and why I think it is a good idea to simply say thank you for the good things that happen in life.

Does one have to have someone or something to say thank you to? Not necessarily. By saying “Thank you” one is simply acknowledging that good things do happen. Because, no matter how bad a person’s life might appear to be, there are a few good moments, and by saying thank you, one is recognizing those moments.

Let’s say a person has a bad day, where just one thing after another went wrong. On looking back the highlight of their whole day was when someone smiled and gave them a kind word. By giving thanks for that moment, they not only recognize something positive, but they also relive that moment. That can only be a good thing.

If life is good, say thank you. Or even if a person is suffering physically or from depression, they can always find something good that happened sometime, and say thank you. Also, they can always find someone worse off than they are. Recognize and at least give thanks for that.

One person offers up a thank you prayer to their God, another simply says thank you to themself or to no one in particular. One might consider the two to be the same thing For what is a prayer but a positive thought, and a positive thought is but an unspoken prayer?

If you utter but one prayer this Thanksgiving or indeed any day. Whether that prayer be spoken or unspoken, let that prayer, or thought be “Thank you.”

Comments

[Ron Huebner]

Amen!

[G]

Thank you, Dave.