{"id":1648,"date":"2013-11-28T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2013-11-28T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T17:27:18","slug":"giving-thanks-with-a-grateful-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/giving-thanks-with-a-grateful-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks, With a Grateful Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am thankful for so many people, so many things, that at times I’m quite overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

At times I wish I could show my gratitude with the exuberance and whimsy of this cartoon:<\/p>\n

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\n(From the “Lunch” series by Christopher Rinehart<\/a>. Used in hope of eventually getting permission.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Alas, I am not as whimsical as I might wish to be.<\/p>\n

But whether I am serious or silly, if I spent every minute of every day doing nothing but expressing thanks I suppose I could never run out of thanks to give — because each thought, each recollection, brings another and another to mind. And so I try to start and end each day with thanks for my family, my friends, my opportunities and achievements as well as my challenges, summed up in the simple, full-of-wonder\u00a0phrase, “Thanks be to God.”<\/p>\n

May you and yours feel blessed on this Thanksgiving Day, and every day.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am thankful for so many people, so many things, that at times I’m quite overwhelmed. At times I wish I could show my gratitude with the exuberance and whimsy of this cartoon: (From the “Lunch” series by Christopher Rinehart. Used in hope of eventually getting permission.) Alas, I am \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}