Gratitude

We have been working on our yearly 'gratitude' project.  We put up a frame with white poster board in it and encourage everyone to jot down things they are grateful for throughout the month.  
I love seeing it fill up with big and little things our family is thankful for.  I especially love all of Sam's little drawings - a bird's eye view of things he is thankful for.

"This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help.
"We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues" 

(Thomas S. Monson, "An Attitude of Gratitude," Ensign, May 1992, 54).