Don’t Forget To Give Thanks

Give thanks for your senses: your eyes that see, your ears that hear, your mouth that tastes, your nose that smells, and your skin that lets you feel. Give thanks for the legs you walk on, your hands that you use to do almost everything, your voice that enables you to express yourself and communicate with others.

Give thanks for your amazing immune system that keeps you well or heals you, and for all your organs that maintain your body immaculately so that you can live. Give thanks for the magnificence of your human mind that no computer technology in the world can duplicate. Your entire body is the greatest laboratory on the planet, and there’s nothing that can come even close to replicating its magnificence. You are a miracle!

Give thanks for your home, your family, your friends, your work, and your pets. Give thanks for the sun, the water that you drink, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe without any of them you wouldn’t be alive.

Give thanks for the trees, the animals, the oceans, the birds, the flowers, the plants, blue skies, rain, the stars, the moon, and our beautiful planet.

Give thanks for the transportation you use every day. Give thanks for all the companies that provide essential services so that you can live a comfortable life. So many human beings toiled and sweated so that you can turn on a tap and have fresh water. So many human beings gave their life’s work so that you can flick a light switch and have electricity. Think about the magnitude of human beings who slaved day after day, year after year, to lay the train tracks across our planet. And it’s almost impossible to imagine the number of people who did the backbreaking work of making the roads we drive on that form a connecting network of life for the world.

Culled from The Power (The Secret) by Rhonda Byrne 

Sometimes we forget to be thankful for the little things. Give thanks!

Mariam Shittu