I remember as a very young boy being reminded by my Great Grandmother that I should be grateful for all the good things that I had in my life.
She made sure I said grace before meals, made sure I said my prayers before bed and to be thankful for food, my good health, a warm bed, for her, and all
the other things that I sometimes took for granted. And, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday in our household. It was a day when I was given a
pencil and paper and told to make a list of all the things I was thankful for in my life. So, I grew up thinking of Thanksgiving as a special day when people
actually developed an attitude of gratitude and gave thanks for life and loves and health and abundance and all the other stuff that makes life grand.
Some years later I was able to place the “attitude of gratitude” into a whole different perspective. In 1995 I met a wonderful lady named Mary Hook. Her hip
replacement was not working and she came to me to fix it. Upon examination I determined that it couldn’t be fixed, it had to be replaced. She didn’t want to replace
it. She said she been through way too much pain getting it in the first place and she didn’t want to go through that pain again.
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