Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

Gratitude is not our natural attitude. Philosopher Erik Hoffer wrote, “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Counting our problems comes fairly easily to us, but counting our blessings seems to require more of an effort. One little boy came home from a birthday party with his arms full of trinkets and candy and party favors. His mom said, “Wow! Did you say thank you to your host?” “Well,” he replied, “I was going to, but when I was in line at the door and the girl ahead of me said ‘Thank you’ to the lady, the lady told her, ‘Oh, don’t mention it.’ So I didn’t.” Problems, we like to talk about; blessings, those we don’t mention.