During Thanksgiving, a gentleman came to the church dejected and lifeless. Sitting in front of the pastor, he complained to the pastor: "They say you should express your gratitude to God during Thanksgiving. Now I have nothing." I have been unemployed for more than half a year. I have looked for a job more than 10 times, but no one has hired me. I have nothing to be grateful for!" The pastor asked him: "Do you really have nothing? God is merciful, and God still loves you. Don’t you think so? Okay, let’s give you a piece of paper and a pen, and you can write down my questions and answers, okay?”

1: The pastor asked him: “Do you have a wife?” ?"

He replied: "I have a wife, and she doesn't leave me because of my hardships. She still loves me. In comparison, my guilt is even deeper."

2: The pastor asked him: "Do you have children?"

He replied: "I have children, five lovely children, although I can't let them eat the best and enjoy the best. Good education, but the children are very ambitious."

3: The pastor asked him: "How is your appetite?"

He replied: "Oh, my appetite is great. , because I don’t have much money, I can’t satisfy my appetite to the maximum extent, so I often only eat 70% full.”

4: The pastor asked him: “Do you sleep well?”

He replied: "Sleep? Haha, my sleep is great. I fell asleep as soon as I touched the pillow."

5: The pastor asked him: "Do you have any friends?"

< p>He replied: "I have friends who help me from time to time because I am unemployed! And I cannot repay them."

6: The pastor asked him: "How is your eyesight?" < /p>

He replied: "My eyesight is very good. I can clearly see objects far away."

So he recorded these 6 items on his paper: 1 I have Good wife 2 I have 5 good children 3 I have a good appetite 4 I have good sleep 5 I have good friends 6 I have good eyesight

The pastor listened to him read the above 6 items and said: " Congratulations! Thank you to our God, how He has blessed you and blessed you! Go back and remember to be grateful!"

He returned home and meditated on the conversation just now. The long-lost mirror: "Ah, how messy and depressed I am! My hair is as hard as a brush, and my clothes are a little dirty..."

Later, with a heart of thanksgiving to God, his spirit also improved. He was very excited and found a good job

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Thanksgiving

The fallen leaves are hovering in the sky, composing a piece of gratitude. It is the gratitude of the big tree to the earth that nourishes it; white clouds are floating in the blue sky, painting that picture A touching picture, that is the white clouds' gratitude to the blue sky that nurtured them. Because of gratitude, there will be this colorful society, and because of gratitude, there will be sincere friendship. It is because of gratitude that we understand the true meaning of life - Inscription

From the baby's "Wow" falling to the ground to feeding him into adulthood, parents have spent so much effort and sweat, and weaved so many days. Day and night; from primary school to junior high school and even university, there were so many teachers who worked hard for him, silently dedicating light and heat, burning themselves and lighting up others.

Gratitude comes from the heart. As the saying goes, "A drop of water should be repaid by a spring." What's more, what parents, relatives and friends pay for you is not just a "drop of water", but a vast ocean. Whether you give your parents a cup of warm tea after they are tired, a card on their birthday, or some greetings and comfort when they are lost, they often devote their efforts and energy to us, but we never remember them. On their birthday, feel their fatigue, and whether they notice the strands of silver and the traces of wrinkles. Gratitude requires you to experience it with your heart and repay it.

Thanksgiving is respectful. As a famous scientist, Marie Curie had won the Nobel Prize twice, but when she saw her primary school teacher at the meeting, she expressed her gratitude with a bouquet of flowers; the great Mao Zedong also sent a gift to his teacher during the festival. Deeply grateful. Great men since ancient times all have a grateful heart. Gratitude does not need to be earth-shattering, it only needs a greeting, a call, and a trace of emotion from you.

Gratitude is meaningful. Love keeps the world spinning.

The dedication of parents is far higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea, but as us, we only know that when food comes, we open our mouths and when clothes come, we stretch out our hands. And there seems to be another isolation belt that makes us become selfish, forget the contributions of our parents, forget the sounds of happiness, and learn to appreciate others is our own conscience and filial piety, because of this we can have There is harmony, happiness, and mutual respect.

Look at society, your parents, your relatives and friends with a grateful heart, and you will find how happy you are. Open your mind and let the drizzle wash away the pollution in your soul. Learn to be grateful because it will make the world a better place and life more fulfilling.

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Learn to be grateful

Dear classmates, our The road of life is always sunny and clear. Which ray of sunshine is the most dazzling? Some people say it is excellent academic performance, some people say it is helping others...and I think the brightest sunshine in our life should belong to gratitude. Thank you to everyone who helps us grow. Yes, learning to be grateful is a feeling, and learning to be grateful is even more a sentiment.

Two years ago, I got a serious illness, and my parents carried me around, seeking medical treatment everywhere. From their anxious looks and their careful care, I deeply felt the heartfelt love my parents had for me. One day, my father carried me to the hospital on his bicycle. After I got on the bicycle, I found that my father was riding very slowly. After several months, my father was too tired. My illness made him physically and mentally exhausted. I accidentally discovered some white hair on my father's head. Ah, dad has changed and grown older. I saw in him the vicissitudes of time, the hardships of life, and even the traces of my father’s hard work for me. Ah, my father has not changed, his mountain-like fatherly love has not changed. I still feel his warmth and his love.

It was one evening when I was hospitalized. It was very cold and it was snowing heavily outside. Dad came to me after get off work to deliver food, but I wanted to eat dumplings. Without saying a word, he put down the home-cooked meal he had brought and went out to buy dumplings for me again, facing the biting wind and the heavy snow flying in the sky. It was getting dark, the wind was getting stronger, and the snow was getting heavier. At this time, the snowman-like dad said as he walked: "You must be so hungry!" Looking at dad's kind face, touching his hands that were red from the cold, I was moved to tears. "Dad, dad..." I chanted over and over again in my heart, "You are really my good dad!". Winter is cold, but everything my father has done is like sunshine, warming my ailing body; and like a warm current, melting into my sad heart; my father's love has supported my belief in overcoming the disease. After more than a year, After months of treatment, I recovered and was discharged.

I will never forget my parents’ love, care and concern for me. What can I do for them? I often ask myself this. Even if I hang my shoulders for them, wash the dishes, sing a song for them, go shopping with them, or take a walk, I will feel comforted in my heart. Learn to be grateful and learn to repay, and I seem to grow up all of a sudden: I study hard and don't let them worry about me; I rush to wash the dishes and pick vegetables so that they can have more rest; I often hum songs to fill the family. Laughter...I try my best to leave the most unforgettable good times to my parents, make them happy and proud,

I love my parents, and children all over the world love their parents. .Let us say to our parents together: "We love you!" Let us act together, repay our kindness, and learn to be grateful. The winter will no longer be cold, the night will no longer be long, and happiness will always be with you and me.

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The true story of gratitude. In order to save money for school fees, a boy living in poverty sold goods door to door. His sales pitch went poorly, and by evening he was exhausted, hungry, and desperate to give up.

Despaired, he knocked on a door, hoping that the owner would give him a glass of water. The door was opened by a beautiful young woman. She smiled and handed him a cup of thick hot milk. The boy drank it with tears and regained his courage for life. Many years later, he became a famous surgeon.

One day, a seriously ill woman was transferred to the hospital where the famous surgeon worked. The doctor successfully performed the operation on the woman and saved her life. Unintentionally, the doctor discovered that the woman was the young woman who had given him the cup of hot milk many years ago when he was hungry and cold! He decided to do something for her quietly.

When the woman who had been worried about the expensive surgery fee went through the discharge procedures, she saw the following seven words on the surgery fee sheet: Surgery fee: a glass of milk. The beautiful young woman in the past did not understand those words. She no longer remembered the boy and the cup of hot milk. However, what does it matter?

Actually, there are some different things in this world.

Those who are not moved at all after reading this story, who have no reflection at all, must have temporarily lacked something very important in their emotional world, or have lost some of the most precious things forever! This story about gratitude reminds people who are seldom moved, no longer moved, or who have completely mistaken the object of their gratitude:

Gratitude is like a knot of grass and a ring, and repayment of a drop of grace by a spring.

Gratitude is a virtue and a state of mind.

Gratitude is a precious opportunity worth waiting for in your lifetime.

Gratitude is a century-long feat worthy of your lifetime.

Gratitude is a love education worth cherishing throughout your life.

Gratitude is not a noisy moment of gratitude for psychological balance, but a silent and eternal reward from the heart.

Gratitude makes life full of sunshine and the world full of warmth.

Learning to be grateful should be the most basic standard for learning to be a human being.

You and I learn to be grateful, starting today.

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A story about gratitude. There was a child who got a strange disease at the age of five. One foot was smaller than the other. His legs were so long that he was as lame as a little duck when he walked. Facing the ridicule of the children around him and the strange looks from everyone, the ignorant child sent a begging signal to his parents. The parents held back their tears and lied to him:

"Child, this is not a disease. As long as you walk regularly and exercise, you will be fine."

The child believed what his parents said and kept walking. After years of wandering around, his parents visited famous doctors for him and gave him all kinds of strange medicines, but the child's illness did not improve. However, despite the heartbreak and pain, the parents still did not give up the idea of ??treating their child. In this way, children grow up in their parents' white lies, nourished by their parents' love, and in their parents' prayers.

Later, the child became sensible and understood the truth of all the facts. But he couldn't find any reason to be sad, because he knew that his parents' tears over the years had healed his wounds; he knew that his parents' lack of regret over the years had long numbed his pain; he knew better that his parents had endured many years of suffering. The pressure far outweighed his misfortune.

He has no sense of loss or regret, because the love of his parents has built a bridge for him to grow up. That bridge is a bridge that rises from the ground and rises into the sky. He is better than anyone else. Stand taller; that bridge is a bridge over the edge of life and future, and the gratitude in his heart is enough to eliminate all dissatisfaction.

A little girl lying on the hospital bed, faced with illness and death, had countless pain and suffering, but she did not shed a single tear.

However, facing her parents’ faces with bleeding hearts, tearful eyes, torn lungs, blank brains, wandering souls, but supported by strong faith, she felt thirsty. Her lips turned white, because she had no words to express gratitude, so she had to keep searching in her mind for the scenes that she had spent with her parents in the past that were connected and interrupted one after another. She wanted to string them together into a touching story before leaving. The story of my own tearful memories.

In the moment when her parents flashed by, the unfortunate arrow of fate was melted by her injured but excited heart, and the pain caused by the disease was driven to the edge of the universe. But not long after, the ruthless god of death took her to the other side of the sky, and it was so quiet and short.

A tear fell down her face that was still warm when her heart beat for the last time. Those tears contained a girl's dream -

The early morning sunshine fell on her through the window. She woke up, wiped her hazy eyes with her hands, and lay in that warm home. , the parents in front of her had red and swollen eyes. It goes without saying that it was their trembling hearts and the shouts that moved the world that snatched her back from the palm of death. Her heart was filled with gratitude.

A writer in Taiwan said in one of his articles that when he was a child, his family was poor. Every time before eating, his grandfather would lead them to put their hands together and pray silently to thank God.

He was very puzzled, so his grandfather told him that when they first arrived in Taiwan, life was very difficult. There were so many people who helped them that they couldn't thank them enough, so just thank God. The small story and the great truth moved me for a long time.

I often think that "people" have two legs. One leg must learn to be grateful, and the other leg must learn to be reverent. Only such a person can stand tall and straight. Nowadays, I often hear people lamenting that the world is getting worse and people's hearts are not what they used to be. If you think about it carefully, there is a saying that "everything in the world is bustling for profit, and everything in the world is bustling for profit." People are struggling in the so-called economic wave every day, and they are ups and downs. Everyone keeps their own pockets tight and counts other people's pockets, but there are a few people who are willing to be grateful and in awe. In life, there are people who are arrogant and insidious in everything they do. They bulge their eyes for fear that others will get more than they do. These people can only be grateful because they have made a lot of money today, and they can only be in awe of the God of Wealth.

The gods in the East are different from the gods in the West. When we show our respect for the gods, there is too much utilitarianism in it, so we have the Guanyin of blessing, wealth, longevity and happiness, and sending children. There is a lot of incense in the temple, not because we respect "gods three feet above the ground", but because we seek the gods from all directions and the monsters from all directions. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that Chinese people live in a geographical location where "high mountains screen the west, deserts screen the north, and the southeast is surrounded by seas." Their material needs are greater than their spiritual demands. Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi. To paraphrase Guo Degang's words: "The five thousand years of glorious culture of our ancestors have basically been ruined through the continuous efforts of our generation."

There is a joke. , two mosquitoes from the 20th century accidentally fell into the time tunnel. When they came to the 21st century, they wanted to taste the blood of modern humans. The mosquito took a sip and spat: "Bah! Why is it so odorless?" "A joke is a joke. The high-tempo urban life makes people live in a reinforced concrete forest and don't know how to please the city.

People living in cities must know how to be grateful and learn to be in awe. Learn to be grateful, thanking life for making us live a hard life, but we can still have food and clothing; learn to be in awe, and being reverent of life makes us become abstract, but we are still kind-hearted. To learn to be grateful, you must know how to repay. When you meet a beggar, give him some money, and when you meet a beggar, give him something to eat. The words are crude but not rough. Even though the matter is small, it finally proves the social value of our lives. Although "a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier", after all, not every soldier is qualified to be a general. To learn to be in awe, you must be considerate. When burning incense and praying, silently recite a prayer: "Let there be five million among those who live harder than me. Although I work hard, I am finally happier than them."

Reflection At a glance, there are so many things in life that deserve our gratitude and awe. A person who knows how to be grateful is a person who enjoys life, and a person who is in awe is a person who is respected by others. Learn to be grateful, know how to be in awe, remember what should be remembered, forget what should be forgotten, change what can be changed, and accept what cannot be changed. Maybe we will be more peaceful, the society will be more harmonious, and we will live upright. Straight and upright.

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