On the holiday that is Thanksgiving we are reminded that we should consider the things in our lives that we are thankful for.  My list of course includes the obvious candidates like my wife, our family, and our health.   But as I pondered deeper I began to think of things like our country and our freedom and what that means.  Our ability to make choices and of course live with the consequences of those choices.  And of course for all of the “things” that we accumulate that we seem to think provide us with happiness. 

We really do have a lot to be thankful for, and as we live our lives, each day provides another set of items for our list.  I’m thankful…I woke up, have a roof over my head, have heat in the cold or cool in the heat, have indoor plumbing and a warm shower,  have clothes and shoes to wear, that I can walk to the coffee shop around the corner, that I have money to buy coffee with, that I can work from home, that I have Internet and a telephone to communicate with others, and of course the list can just go on and on and on.

We should be reminded daily that there are plenty of people in this world that do not have what we have and really no matter how bad things become for us there will almost certainly be someone somewhere that has things worse than you.   Be thankful for who you are and what you have.