I think, therefore I am by The Spirit

Thanksgiving is now upon us and many throughout the country will be wondering just what there is to be thankful for. Well I say this to those of you who are not sure why we should be thankful. There are many reasons given to us each day of our lives to be thankful. All you really have to do is take a few minutes out of your day and truly look at your life.

Might I even suggest the following line of thought, if you’re down there in your dumps take a good look at what you have deposited there.

Are you very unhappy that because of your job you have to get up early and even sometimes you don’t sleep like you would like to. Believe me here when I say “It is truly better to be thankful for the few hours of sleep you might get than to complain out it. The alternate would be to sleep forever and never to awaken again” Are you truly ready to take that step or is there more to life you would like to experience? Remember this as well. Your actions of today can have an affect upon tomorrow. Give thanks for today and live to see tomorrow. Enjoy the day as it is given. Be thankful for that early sun rise and late hour you had to go to bed because of some problem or another.

Happiness truly begins with a smile and then learning to look at the brighter side of things. If you awaken to a new day and your body hurts from yesterdays activities be thankful for those sensations as you are alive and filled with the memories of days gone by. You are alive with the promise of today and those up coming days yet to be. Yes you may hurt still you should be thankful for the new day. Remember deep within your heart: “Happiness is the knowledge that your memories can be enjoyable as well as painful”. This is the knowledge of how to live and you will need to go on. Live so as the memories of today and yesterday as well as those yet to come can be enjoyed. If you can do this then you will always have a reason to be thankful for every give day and all that comes into it.

Being happy comes with knowing: It is better to laugh at life. Than to allow life to laugh at you!

Life should be lived by knowing the difference between needs and wants. Be of a thankful mind in all things. And at the end of the day look back upon your trials and tribulations and see if you truly had any. And then you will know how thankful you should be for the given day. You survived it and that in itself is a reason to be thankful especially if you are home with your family and loved ones. It is here I suggest you keep in mind that: “Life is time in the sun, mixed with time under gloomy skies and in the rain. Time spent constantly questioning life itself and if it has truly begun when it has”. Be thankful for the time in the sun and the time in the rain for they are telling you life has truly begun. Both are needed to nourish life to its fullest potential. So be thankful for the time in the sun and for those days filled with sadness and gloomy skies.

One should be thankful for knowing a friend or loved one who can find laughter to the point of tears, for they tend to easily find great joy. A person such as this will also bring that same joy to all they come in contact with. A person such as this will also have a tear in their eyes as they smile at life. Be thankful for those you are surrounded by and call your friends and family. You should be thankful for the best discovery any one can ever make. For that is the discovery that they have friends to laugh at and with as well as at themselves. Be thankful for the simple thinks that come your way. They are the best of gifts one can receive in life. Often they are the items that have helped you to smile.

Be thankful for God sent his son Jesus to teach mankind. How to pray, How to Remember, How to forgive, How to live with each other, How to love, How to be of truth, How to be as in one and in him!

Be of a thankful mind as you go through life. For all things that come your way truly are gifts from God. It is up to you to receive them with a grateful heart as you have lived another day. A day in which you have smiled, perhaps cried, but mostly you have been and done what God desires of you for this day. Be thankful!