| Show aup BLESSINGS ART OF BEING THANKFUL time to take stock of the good things in life TEW EW of us I 1 suppose often stop to analyze the things which touch 1 ita I most or mean most to UL our prentest greatest blessings perhaps we sometimes try most to avoid if bolay we should each take stock of f the pors personal onal blessings for which e should thank the good lord what would they be not the same for or all of us perhaps and yet for most of us very largely the same for myself I 1 am most thankful for work for the necessity and the opportunity of regularly regular lj doing something omet bing for the joy of the weariness that comes from mental or physical toll one of the saddest objects la in the world Is a man who does not tike like to work who cannot work or who has no work to 0 o do just the other day I 1 had a letter from a young fellow who through misfortune and illness has for three years been unable to work will yoa you not pray with me he wrote that I 1 may soon be stron strong again for tt it will be the happiest day say of my life when I 1 can go to work ork 4 I 1 om am thankful next for opportunity 1 IT I never had a chance n hopeless shiftless failure said to me only a few tins ago ngo I 1 am glad for my chance for the for reaching dally daily outlook to learn something new to do something better to help someone who tie ie Is down doun and to stir someone to greater ambition and grenter greater effort I 1 am nin thankful for health for the strength and energy that are deeded needed to do the work that presents itself every day to meet the problems that sometimes seem too difficult to be solved to accomplish the duties that multiply and crowd upon one and cap ones vitality It alltY and try onee onela courage I 1 am thankful for fir friends lends for the joy of home and home ties for the loving association and help of those with whom I 1 am dally in contact and who every day make work tweeter sweeter und and life more worth while I 1 am thankful for life itself find and for all it has meant and for all that it may mean here and he hereafter and andou abdou ou who read these worde words will as you read rend perhaps set down the catalogue of bour our own oun individual blessings hies bles which though they may not be the same as an mine willmet will he made more real and more vital because yon you have bave turned your thoughts to them thomas arkle clark dean of men of illinois a 1926 western Nw par onion |
