Reasons to Be Thankful

By Liz Wiskowski

      While sorting through some old papers, I came across a little booklet with “Reasons to be Thankful”. I think all of us should review these occasionally, especially when we are feeling sorry for ourselves. It will remind us how blessed we are.

      If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.

      If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people around the world.

      If you attend church without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.

      If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head 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 8% of the world’s wealthy.

      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.