A touch of God's hand in your life...

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

“How Different”

Some murmur when the sky is clear

And wholly bright to view,

If one small speck of dark appear

In their great heaven of blue:

And some with thankful love are filled,

If but one streak of light,

One ray of God’s good mercy, gild

The darkness of their night.

(Richard Chenevix Trench, in Soumrcebook of Poetry, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1968, p. 396.)

“Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things” (D&C 59:7)

...ask yourself, “How did God bless me today?” If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings. And sometimes, you will have gifts brought to your mind which you failed to notice during the day, but which you will then know were a touch of God’s hand in your life.

Remembrance and Gratitude | Bishop Henry B. Eyring

November 1989