Thanksgiving

I sit here in my warm home thinking of my blessings. I am grateful for phones that allow me to talk to my husband who is not going to home for this holiday. I am grateful for being able to spend time with my family today. So in thinking of my blessings, I looked for talks about Thanksgiving. I found pieces of a talk from President Monson that I would like to share today.

"Do material possessions make us happy and grateful? Perhaps momentarily. However, those things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us. Unfortunately, these are some of the things we allow ourselves to take for granted."

And "My beloved friend President Gordon B. Hinckley said, “When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives.”   

President Monson: The Divine Gift of Gratitude October 2010.

So as we go out into this day, may we remember our blessings.
Kathy