Come Ye Thankful People Come

Andy Rooney, on 60 minutes, wished that people would stop and honor Thanksgiving Day. It is an American Holiday, a day to be grateful. Well, I listened to a talk this morning and it talked about two researchers who wanted to research gratitude. They had three groups of people. One group kept a list of their daily happenings, the second kept a list of the bad things that happened. But the third group listed their daily blessings. The researchers found that those who counted their blessing were less depressed, less stressed, more optimistic, more enthusiastic, exercised more, moved more quickly to their goals, felt more loved and did more acts of kindness. Isn't that just amazing? Gratitude is a commandment, but it is a commandment that is for our good, cause it brings us good things. God really loves us.