Thanksgiving Thoughts

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;
   I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. Psalm 9:1

"Thanksgiving" — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But blessings are like friends, I hold,
Who love and labor near us.
We ought to raise our notes of praise
While living hearts can hear us.
 
Full many a blessing wears the guise
Of worry or of trouble
Farseeing is the soul and wise
Who knows the mask is double.
 
But he who has the faith and strength
To thank his God for sorrow
Has found a joy without alloy
To gladden every morrow.
 
We ought to make the moments notes
Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;
The hours and days a silent phrase
Of music we are living.
 
And so the theme should swell and grow
As weeks and months pass o'er us,
And rise sublime at this good time,
A grand Thanksgiving chorus.


May tomorrow's glad Thanksgiving Day be the first verse in a lifelong song of gratitude.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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​For more on incorporating gratitude in your life, consider the following book by Diana Butler Bass:

Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks