Thankful for...

Today is Thanksgiving.  And all month everyone has been posting their daily little thanks.  I think friends, family and health are pretty well covered.  So, I am thankful for my electric tea kettle, my electric mattress pad, my Uggs, my Kindle, my Droid, Sirius radio and GPS in the car,  DVR, and this little laptop.  Oh, I can see frowns of displeasure forming on your brows.  We are not supposed to be thankful for THINGS, we are supposed to be thankful for those intangibles that we have no control over.  If all those things disappeared from my life, I would miss them, but I would be fine.  And if the intangibles disappeared from life, my family, friends and health, I would be in crisis.  But, we are living in amazing times.  We have so many THINGS that make our lives comfortable and fun and interesting, it would truly be a shame to not acknowledge how lucky and grateful we are for those things.  Every time I get in the shower I give thanks that I live in a day and age when I can turn a nozzle and stand under a streaming fall of hot water.  To say nothing of the essential luxury of an inside toilet.  A car with HEATED seats, for gosh sakes.  How amazing is that?  I LOVE them on a cold morning.  I am thankful for the creativity and ingenuity of the human spirit, all that brain power that has gone into the little things that make my life wonderful.  All of which is a reflection and gift of the Great Creator.  Thank you.  Praise be to God from whom all blessings flow.  Praise him all creatures here below.  Praise him above ye heavenly hosts. Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.