Thank you Lord, for a warm bed to sleep on, thank you for the food we are about to eat, thank you for a roof over our heads on cold nights such as this, thank you for companionship in hard times like these, Amen. — The Book of Eli

It’s going to be bitterly cold across most of the country over the next few days.  We are fortunate to have a warm home and the means to keep it.  Life isn’t easy, but we’re not scraping.  Did we earn everything we have?  You betcha.  But we have to remember to be thankful for our lives, and to remember our duty to help those who have not been as fortunate.  Most of all, we have to be thankful that we are together.  It hasn’t always been that way, and I can never let myself forget how miserable I am when I’m not with my family*.

Yes, it could be a lot worse, and I am very thankful that things are as good as they are.

*Not that they don’t make me absolutely crazy.  But I’d rather be crazy than alone.