The Season To Be Grateful

Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year.

I love the turkey, and the jello, but most of all the mashed potatoes!

But I also love that it is the time of year when we all really focus on what we are grateful for.

My mom taught a Relief Society lesson a couple weeks ago on gratitude.

She asked the sisters to think about things they were grateful for.

I’m sure everyone first thought of the regular “church” answers, such as family, the gospel, or the scriptures.

Those are amazing things.

But my mom asked the sisters to think of things that they wouldn’t on a regular basis think how lucky we are to have.

Some of the sisters really got thinking.

Things like cement, a sister got cement in her backyard and now dirt wasn’t tracked in her house.

That lesson got me thinking a lot.

As the season has gotten colder and I have to walk quite a ways to get to school, it always gets me thinking of the small things I am grateful for.

An umbrella when it rains,

Gloves so my hands don’t turn blue,

Apple cider to warm me up on my walk to class,

A warm car to get into after being outside,

And then a warm home to go to after.

I love the amazing things we have today.

The pioneers walked in snow, and some with no shoes.

They didn’t have umbrellas when it rained,

Most, probably didn’t have gloves,

They probably didn’t have a warm drink to warm them up,

And they didn’t have a warm car,

Or a warm house to walk into after a long day of being in the cold.

This is a wonderful season.

We shouldn’t only use this month of the season to be grateful.

But to be grateful all year round for the magnificent things we have in life.