was sitting at her dining table, worried about taxes
to be paid, housework to be done and to top it all, her extended family was
coming over for festival lunch the next day. She was not feeling very thankful
at that time.
As she turned her gaze sideways, she noticed her young
daughter scribbling furiously into her notebook.
“My teacher asked us to write a paragraph on “Negative
Thanks Giving” for homework today.” said the daughter.
“She asked us to write down things that we are
thankful for, things that do not make us feel good in the beginning, but turn
out to be good after all.”
Curious, the mother peeked into the book. This is what
her daughter wrote:
“I’m thankful for Final Exams, because that means
school is almost over.
I’m thankful for bad-tasting medicine, because it
helps me feel better.
I’m thankful for waking up to alarm clocks, because it
means I’m still alive.”
It then dawned on the mother, that she had a lot of
things to be thankful for!
She thought again…
She had to pay taxes but that meant she was fortunate
to be employed.
She had housework to do but that meant she had a
shelter to live in.
She had to cook for her many family members for lunch
but that meant she had a family with whom she could celebrate.
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“You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing
happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.”
~ Joel Osteen
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