Grateful

Gratitude is the theme of November, and I have so much to be grateful for. It is overwhelming when I really spend time thinking of all the wonderful people, experiences, blessings and things that I have in my life.  

I love this quote from President Thomas S. Monson: 

This is a wonderful time to be on earth. While there is much that is wrong in the world today, there are many things that are right and good. There are marriages that make it, parents who love their children and sacrifice for them, friends who care about us and help us, teachers who teach. Our lives are blessed in countless ways.

We can lift ourselves and others as well when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. Someone has said that "gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”