Have you not yet learned that when someone gives you a gift to say thank you?
 
Perhaps you are devoted to saying thank you for a cigarette that someone gives you, a glass of water, a tip on the races.
 
And, yet, how many times have you thanked Me?
 
I am not being petulant. I do not speak from ego. I speak from the court of love. It’s true. I court you. I want you to come to Me. Yes, I want you to thank Me for all the treasures you do have. This is how you count your blessings.
 
What’s in it for you that I ask you to thank Me? Hey, I don’t require your thanks! I laugh at the idea of My requiring anything for Myself. For you, I ask that you say thanks, for there is a need for you to notice the gifts you have been given. How many times a day for how many gifts will you say, “Thanks, God.”
 
If you were to fully thank Me, you would not be able to do anything else. If you were to thank Me fully, that would be your career.
 
So twenty times a day? One hundred? Two?
 
Better than your recognition for all you have been given is the framework from which you come. What a difference that makes. An ambience of gratefulness changes you.
 
Perhaps you don’t really like the word grateful. Perhaps it sounds too – what? – too programmed, perhaps even too corny? That’s fair enough. Then let’s call gratitude something else. Let’s call it gladness. Be glad. Gladness is fulsome. Be full of gladness. Offer it to Me.
 
What are you glad for? What are you not glad for? Can you turn it around? Even for what you may not be glad for at this moment, when you think of it, can you be?
 
Perhaps you are not glad to get up this morning. Perhaps you would prefer to stay in bed. Perhaps you could be glad to get out of bed.
 
What is gladness? It is knowing privilege when you see it. Perhaps you see obligation, duty, your own unwillingness before you even glance at privilege. Is it not a privilege to get up and meet the sun?
 
Perhaps you are not glad to face the day. Perhaps you see another day, another dollar. No wonder you would rather stay in bed! What if you knew that on this day when you don’t want to get up that when you did, this day would become the finest day in your life? Then you would jump out of bed!
 
What if you have a job interview today? You do not look forward to it. Perhaps you are feeling: Another job interview, another rejection.
 
Who would want to get up for that kind of interview? What if this interview today not only led to a job, but to a job you would really like and a wonderful unfolding of your life?
 
What if you worked because you like to rather than because you have to?
 
What if the way you look at your daily life makes all the difference in the world?
 
So I am asking you now, What are you looking at? What are you thinking about?
 
And if you can at this moment not think of anything to make you feel glad, then, in that case, think of something to add zip to someone else’s life. A flower, a word, a smile, a nod, a recognition. Enjoy someone else’s day then.
 
And thank God, thank Me, that you have the privilege to brighten someone else’s day, and do it.