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Show OUR BLESSINGS; ART OF BEING THANKFUL Time Vo Take Stock of the Good Things in Life. TJEW of us, I suppose, often stop to analyze the things which touch as most or mean most to us. Our greatest blessings, perhaps, we some-rimes some-rimes try most to avoid. If to lay we should each take stock of the personal blessings for which we should thank the good Lord, what would they be? Not the same for all of us, perhaps, and yet for most of us very largely the same. For myself I am most thankful for work for the necessity and the opportunity oppor-tunity of regularly doing something; for the joy of the weariness that comes from mental or physical toil. One of the saddest objects In the world is a man who does not like tc work, who cannot work, or who has no work to do. Just the other day I had a lettet from a young fellow who through misfortune mis-fortune and illness has for three years been unable to work. "Will you not pray with me," he wrote, "that I mas soon be strong again, for it will b the happiest day of my life when can go to work." I am thankful next for opportunity "I never had a chance," a hopeless shiftless failure said to me only a few days ago. I am glad for my "chance,' for the far-reaching daily outlook t learn something new, to do somethlnf better, to help someone who is dowi and to stir someone to greater ambi tion and greater effort. I am thankful for health, for thi strength and energy that are needei to do the work that presents itsel every day, to meet the problems tha sometimes seem too difficult to bi solved, to accomplish the duties tha multiply and crowd upon one and sai one's vitality and try one's courage I am thankful for friends, for tin Joy of home and home ties, for thi loving association and help of thos' with whom I am daily in contact am who every day make work sweete and life more worth while. I am thankful for life Itself and fo all It has meant and for all that 1 may mean here and hereafter. And you who read these words wil as you read, perhaps, set down th catalogue of your own Indlvidua blessings, which, though they may no be the same as mine, will yet be mad more real and more vital because yo have turned your thoughts to them.-Thomas them.-Thomas Arkle Clark, Dean of Met University of Illinois. . 1925. Western Newspaper Union.) |
