Gratitude

I have to admit with Thanksgiving coming up, I am finding myself grateful for so many things. I've tried to encourage my four year-old to include things he doesn't regularly offer thanks for in his prayers. He thanked God for the ceiling and the floors one night and when he was done praying, I asked him why he was grateful and he said, "I'm grateful for the ceilings because they keep the rain off us. And I'm grateful for the floors because they keep us from falling downstairs into the rooms below." Obvious reasons that they are good, but I was so happy to realize that he wasn't just naming things off that he saw, but that he really thought about why he was grateful for these things. I hope that I may be more child-like in my approach to gratitude and see the gift in everything around me, especially those things that I may tend to take for granted.