Ann's "Thoughts About Giving Thanks"

In the Children's Message today, I mentioned the "Thoughts About Giving Thanks" that Ann shared with the C.A.R.E. Committee last Thursday. Here is her list in its entirety:

Thoughts About Giving Thanks

If the only prayer you say in your life is “thank you,” that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” – William A. Ward

Thank you. Thank you very much. – Elvis Presley

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone. – Gertrude Stein.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. – Cynthia Ozick

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. W.J. Cameron

I awake this morning with devout thanks for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. – Seneca

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way. – Anonymous

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. – Karl Barth

…the thankful heart … will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. – Henry Ward Beecher

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. – Estonian Proverb