Happy Thanksgiving and happy holidays to you and your family.
As we approach Thanksgiving, it's important that we are grateful to those who have touched our lives and helped us blossom--after all--there is nobody that does it alone. Marcel Proust so aptly describes this in this quote, “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
As you gather with your family and friends around the table, let's be thankful for the many blessings of our nation and ourselves and remember those who are no longer with us. A word of thanks would not be complete without giving thanks for the sacrifice made by so many in the military, so that we could live in a free nation. We can be thankful for the sacrifices made by our predecessors, whether they were pioneers, or subsistence farmers, or living in ghettoes in Europe, just so that we could be here today. Or as Will Rogers said, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower. But they were here to meet the boat!"
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Doris Day
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
I'd like to share with you this quote from actor and investment commentator Ben Stein:
"I cannot tell you anything that, in a few minutes, will tell you how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich—which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful."
Thanksgiving could be called Be Grateful Day. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
As you gather with your family and friends around the table, let's be thankful for the many blessings of our nation and ourselves. We can be thankful for the sacrifice made by so many in the military, so that we could live in a free nation. We can be thankful for the sacrifices made by our predecessors, whether they were pioneers, or subsistence farmers, or living in ghettoes in Europe, just so that we could be here today. Or as Will Rogers said, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower. But they were here to meet the boat!"
We can be thankful that we have been given so much in abundance that we and our neighbors are among the most generous people in the world when tragedies like the hurricanes in Puerto Rico and Texas.
We can be thankful that, as radio commentator Earl Nightingale used to say, "We live in the golden age that people have dreamed of for thousands of years. We live better than kings of 200 years ago." We have better food, better medicine, central heating in the winter, cooling in the summer, and nearly unlimited travel opportunities.
And as long as we can enjoy the laughter of a small child, the warm hug of a loved one, and the satisfaction that comes from a life lived with purpose, we can feel grateful, and are indeed richer than many who live in the finest mansions on a hill. "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
God bless you and please know that we are grateful every day to have a chance to serve you,O. Henry
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Eric Zine