Thanksgiving for Little Things

“The good we are to be thankful for need not be big things in themselves, but there is nothing to stop us putting an infinite value on them if that is the impulse of the heart. The slightest thing can light up our whole life in joy, thanks, service, praise, for we always see it as a mark of God’s goodness. Gratitude is called forth by the kindnesses we receive and spurs us to return those kindnesses. It tends always to make us give more than we get, and to give it in a different way….However material the blessing we have been given, Gratitude never sees its material value, but only the good will behind it, which is beyond all valuation; it answers by giving our whole soul. It bursts out in the utterly generous praise of the Gloria in Excelsis: ‘We give Thee thanks, O God, for Thy great glory’—if we get nothing by it, it is enough that You exist, and that You are splendour itself, for us to glow with gratitude.”
~Pie-Raymond Régamey