Thanksgiving

“Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” As they were going they were cleansed.  And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him.

There are so many things to be thankful for. We should be thankful for our lives. We should be thankful for friends and family. We should be thankful for the great things. And the little ones. We should be thankful for our health, if we have it, and for our suffering because it brings us closer to Christ. We should be thankful for the successes we have enjoyed, but also the failures we have learned from. Most of all, we should be thankful because we are children of a loving and merciful God. He is our Heavenly Father and will do everything in His power to cleanse and heal us, if only we will give Him a chance and trust in His Will.

What are we thankful for? Have we expressed this thanks to God? How can we led more thankful lives?

O Lord, thank you for everything you have done for us, great and small, noticed and unnoticed.

Amen.