Day 3 - My Children

I am grateful for my children. They are different one from the other and because of that they each have taught me something different and important.

From my daughter, I have learned to always have a smile on my face. I don't always follow her example, but I am trying :)

From my son, I have learned to give people the benefit of a doubt. I used to jump to conclusion without stopping to consider that, perhaps, there are special circumstances behind decisions people make. I am doing better with this challenge than the other one.

I found this quote on gratitude and I hope it touches your heart as it touched mine.

"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).