Thankful for Everything

In the spirit of the season of Thanksgiving, I've been trying to add a few more thanks to each of my prayers, and I've been reminded that we have a lot to be thankful for. Of course, we should be thankful for all our blessings, including both material and immaterial blessings, but we should also be thankful for our trials for helping us become stronger, tougher, and wiser. It's hard to think of anything that doesn't fall into either of those categories. It seems to me that just about everything is either a trial or a blessing or both. So, in essence, we really should be grateful for everything. We can look at anything and think to ourselves how it brings us joy and/or how it can help make us a better person. Every aspect of life, including life itself, is a gift from God, and we have reasons to be thankful for each and every one of them.