Thanks, #6

You cannot be grateful and bitter.

You cannot be grateful and unhappy.

You cannot be grateful and without hope.

You cannot be grateful and unloving.

So just be grateful.

Author Unknown

Thanks, #5

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming
gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Thanks, #4

Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

October 3, 1863

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.

We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the heavens.

Thanks, #3

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty
is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in
every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks, #2

I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like
my shoes.

I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me
when I get up in the morning... Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it,
John.'

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the
scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

I'm thankful...

Johnny Cash

Thanks, #1

If you just look at all that already exists in your life, all that you
already have: unlimited air to breathe, ample lighting to see, music to hear,
books to read, stars to dream by, trees to gaze at, floors to dance on, friends
to cavort with, enemies to befriend, strangers to meet, woods to walk through,
beaches to comb, rocks to scale, rains to cleanse you, rivers to float you,
animals to comfort you, you do have to admit, there's more of it than you could
ever, ever, ever spend.But try anyway.
Mike Dooley

A week of thanks.

This week as preparation for family & feasting bubbles up, we thought it would be nice for you to have a moment each day where you can just breathe and appreciate the moment. So we'll post a good thought for you to hold in your mind each day this week to honor this season of gratitude.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.
Author Unknown