attitude into gratitude

there will be an expansion on this in the future, i just wanted to use the phrase, ive never heard it before, and am intending on writing in depth about it. The idea came from my son in law brian, on his 10-sixths blog. He was in a complaing mode, about the swamp in the back yard, frogs croaking at nught, and the neighbors dogs at 5 o:clock in the morning. He finished up with being aware of the incredible family he had, the fact he had a job, and the two months of unemployment, which gave him 24/7 time with his son. What he did, without realizing was change his attitude into gratitude.

   There are times in all of our lives, where we complain. Small complaints, or large complaints. We didn't get our way, we didn't get what we wanted, it always seems to relate to the word get.

    " I once complained of having no shoes till I met a man with no feet."  A famous quote I have visualized in my head thousands of times in my 58 years.  The simple act of saying grace and giving thanks at meals is something that has been done in our family since the start of the Smith house in 1977. The ending of the prayer is not set, we say our same grace, then  give thanks for watching over all of our children, but there  is a unspoken rule that anybody can continue on with some special thanks or request that they feel needs to be said. This saying of grace is not some religious routine, no mantra preached by us to our children. It is instead a simple form of teaching them to say thanks for what they have, rather than complaing about what they don't.
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