Giving Thanks
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008This will be the only T4D for this week. I’m traveling with my team (family) from Atlanta to Chicago where we’ll gather with my two brothers and their families and Mom & Dad and together celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday.  It will be a time filled with renewal, remembrance, and lots of love and laughs. With any luck it will also include some of Mom’s pies!
I have collected a few quotes, and thoughts around Thanksgiving as well as a few of my favorite clip art images. My wish is that you might enjoy them as I have and that your Thanksgiving and mine …need not be tied to a holiday…but to our hearts.  Gratitude is not an event that takes place on a given day…but a virtue that can be lived each and every day.
Joy and happiness are born of gratitude. Â Gordon T. Watts
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. Â Thomas S. Monson
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness…It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love and well-being. Â Â James E Faust
“Thanksgiving Day comes by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. Â Â Edward Sanford Martin
Gratitude is a state of appreciation, an act of thanksgiving, which causes us to be humble because we recognize an act of kindness, service, or caring from someone else which lifts us and strengthens us. Â Robert D. Hales
Thanksgiving - Giving Thanks - Being thankful for what one is given -
I heard this guy on the radio saying that each year he makes a list of 26 things he’e grateful for using the alphabet as a guide…something that begins with each letter. I liked the idea and will be doing it this year with my own family.
Another favorite follows…
