Thought for the Day 11/15/2018

To be grateful for all life's blessings....

is the best condition for a happy life.

A joke, a good meal, a fine fall day, a work of art,

a human personality, a voice, a glance - BUT

this is not all. For there is another kind of gratitude.... 

the feeling that makes us thankful for suffering, 

for the hard and heavy things of life, 

for the deepening of our characters 

which perhaps only suffering can bring.

~ Thomas Mann



Through him then let us continually offer up a

sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit

of lips that acknowledge His name.

~ Hebrews 13:15