Happy Thanksgiving Day!

"If there is so great a lack of joy in human life today this is owing to the fact that thankfulness has in great measure been excluded from many hearts, having been willfully and deliberately drowned in the floods of bitter discontent. Thankfulness and joy are near of kin; and ingratitude is the root of much unhappiness. St. Paul, the Apostle, a keen psychologist, well knew what he was saying when to his earnest exhortation, 'Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I say, rejoice,' he immediately added an exhortation to 'prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.'"

~ Rt. Rev. Paul Wilhelm von Keppler, "More Joy", imprimatur 1914.

We always have a choice in life...sometimes it's merely a choice of attitude: I'm not sure who said that, but it's very true. And there's another cliched saying about choosing an attitude of gratitude.

Whether we can think of a new, original way to express this or not, 😉 we don't want to be like the Chosen People of Old who were never grateful for what God had given them. They always seemed to be whining for whatever they didn't have. God performed miracles for them, getting them out of Egypt and away from their captors; and all they could think of to say was, "Yeah, but we're hungry."

Most of us in the United States of America on Thanksgiving Day at this time of the evening are anything but hungry, LOL, but maybe we have other things to whine about. Let's not. Let's remember what we're grateful for...even when it isn't Thanksgiving Day. God has done so much for us, from the moment He gave us life in the womb to this present moment. 

Deo gratias. Thanks be to God.