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Things I'm Thankful for

Oh great! Now they want a blog entry on what I'm thankful for. It's actually a good question as I sit in my office on Thanksgiving morning halfway around the world from my family in a country that does not celebrate Thanksgiving. (I'm not even sure that they know what a turkey is exactly).

Well, why not be thankful that I have this job? Too many people are out of work right now.

And be thankful for my Chinese work colleagues. They really are a friendly bunch who want me to be happy.

And be thankful that I can use "Skype" to call my family. A generation ago, someone living abroad would have had to do without that.

And you know what? I am thankful that I can access Writing.Com and participate in this blogging group. (There! I said it!)

Anything else? Well, I read the Catholic Chuch's recommended Thanksgiving day mass just now, and the gospel is the story about the ten lepers which Jesus healed and the one came back to thank him. That made me thoughtful, because I guess another thing to be thankful for is that I don't have leprosy or a host of other medical conditions.

No seriously, our health is one of the easiest things to take for granted, but it should be one of the things we value most. No matter how poor you get or how hopeless your relationships may seem, being healthy definitely makes life better.