What are you grateful for that you often take for granted?

Yeeeaaahhhh!! Jumping up and down for you, Judi...now go take a nice long hot bubble bath with candles lit!

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People often look at me like I am half crazy when I talk about things like this. There are so many things that we often take for granted, but instead should be taking the time to show gratitude for. I spent this past summer without hot water. I had to boil and carry the water in order to take a bath. Not only did that remind me how grateful I was for running water, but how grateful I am for hot running water. There is an article that has floated around the internet for a few years now. It breaks the population of the world down into a community of only 100 people. Of those hundred people only 6 would actually have any money on them at all. I won't go into large amounts of detail, but it basically states that if you have a house, running water, electricity, and a couple of pennies laying around the house, you are wealthier and better off than 96% of the people on the planet. We get angry and complain when our "fast food" takes more than 3 minutes, yet there are people all over the world who struggle just to stay warm and find a single bite to eat.
 
Spot on Boomer. And anyone who has more than two pairs of shoes is pretty well off too.
We need to be more willing to share our wealth with the really poor of this world.

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No, Di, I didn't say give everything away like Francis of Assisi.
I just said we need to be less unwilling.
And express gratitude with actions as well as words.

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