When things look the bleakest, it's sometimes easier to see the things in my life for which I am the most thankful. There is so much...
What are you thankful for? How do you celebrate this time of year? Do you read? Tell stories, and imagine? What do you say about Thanksgiving?
Read more quotes of Thanksgiving:
- "Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."
-- Irving Berlin - "Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience."
-- Sadi, The Gulistan - "The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts ... nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."
-- H.W. Westermayer - "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
-- W.T. Purkiser - "I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness... Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy."
-- Anne Frank
So, what are you reading? What are you doing? How are you celebrating, as Thanksgiving draws near?
Comments
Thank you reminding us of how very muh we have to be thankful for! We spend far too much tme worrying about shoes when others have no feet,
Five years agi ny husband had sinalnasal cancer that was expected to take his sight, and then proved unreachable in the optic nerve and he was given a few short months to live, Yet today he is working and active. sometimes we stress about a litttle hard of hearing (due to radiation) and neropathy. But to be here to enjoy life and a beautiful little grandson! We have much to be thankful for.
Perhaps all the political races didn’t go our way Perhaps there are problems in our country. Headlines read drugbusts, murders and ecomonic stress. Perhaps we won’t be able to see all the children this year, but we know they are in Gods protective care We know we live in the Freest couhtry in the world, We have good neighbors who are joining together to help young people tempted by alcohol and other drugs, and fix a big community dinner on Thursday. We have teachers in our school who really care abouit the children. We have so many blessings!!
I’m satisfied with “just a cottage below, a little silver and a little gold, but I’ve got a mansion just over the hilltop” that we will all be together again in that future day!
Thank you for reminding us of what b;essings we have!!
loads of thanks for all your encouraging words and stories .It really touched my heart …we sometimes suffer from the sin of ingratitude and we are in the habit of counting our sufferings rather than our blessings…We need sometimes to be taken by hand and shown our blessings which is uncountable…We need to be thankful for all what God gave us without asking for it ,and all what God deprived us from ,for our own good, without being aware of it…. He, all-mighty,knows our needs and gives each what is best for him. I am content and should always have this faith that I have “a mansion just over the hilltop.”
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