"If the only prayer you ever said was 'thank you', that would suffice." Meister Eckhart

We could be thankful for so many things. We often aren't. It is easier to roll along on automatic, saying thank you in an attempt to smooth the bumpy places in the day. It oils the machinery of living. It's when we begin to use our thank you as the voice in the outer world of a genuine gratefulness we feel in our hearts, that we begin living our lives as a gift. The view from that ridge of the heart sees our experiences in the world as part of larger sacred journey. We become adults when we realize that everyday living is not ever going to be a Hallmark Card. There will be moments of that here and there, but big chunks of it are simply about getting on with our lives. What's to be done with all that? To have thankfulness then is an act of surrender. It says we trust that life and our place in it have value and purpose despite our limited sight. Genuine thankfulness is when the machinery of our daily lives breaks down and sitting there stranded in the muck, we still believe it's all good.