Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I’ve been reading G.K. Chesterton recently, and this quote from him sums up the essence of thankfulness pretty well. Gratitude is worship, perhaps the highest form of worship we have. In that way, all of life can become an act of worship and a song of praise to the One who made it all, and gave all for us.
