Thank you might be two of the most powerful words that we can speak–maybe aside from the words, I’m sorry. So, even when times seem difficult, and we can’t see how things will work out, we can say thank you for what we have already in our hands. We can say thank you for our next breath. We can say thank you to the one whose hands prepared the meal we just enjoyed, and we can say thank you to those who labor on our bahalf to defend the freedom we so casually enjoy and take for granted.

My goal this month is to find a way to outwardly express my gratitude and to give back in an effort to ‘pay forward’ some of the blessing that have been bestowed in my life. Everything moves in cycles. Sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug, as they say. So, I will find a way to use my talent and my energy to do something to benefit others because I believe that loves to use people to bless other people. My desire is to be a blessing–to offer the use of my hands to do what I can where I can. This is how I will express my gratitude.

I challenge everyone reading this to find ways that they can express their gratitude. If you are reading this that means that you are alive and well thereby giving you much to be thankful for. Pass the blessings along.