I reviewed my training materials today and I happen to open this beautiful hand-out (though I can't remember who gave this nice article to me!) about why we should be thank ful. I'd like to share this article with you---to inspire you just like what it did to me today! The world is full of negative woes but there are so many things that we should be thankful---so many things that should make us really appreciate life even more.
BE THANKFUL!
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…
…you are more blessed than the millions who will not survive this week.
…you are more blessed than the millions who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 900 million people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
—Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
