Pure Old-Fashioned Thankfulness

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel. ~Author Unknown

In addition to shopping and baking, I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately.  More appropriately, about the lack of gratitude. As a whole, I just don’t think we’re a very gracious generation. Can you imagine what the ones behind us will be like? Lord help us!

Why do people just expect everyone else to bend over backwards for them - and to feel privileged for getting to do so.

I started thinking about all of this a few days ago after a tirp to the store. As we were leaving, I saw an older man hold the door open for a woman.  He looked at her, smiling, but she never acknowledged him, and she certainly didn’t bother to say, ”Thank you.”  She kept her phone to her ear and blew right by him with a stern look on her face while he had a puzzled expression on his.

When he was walking away he muttered under his breath, “You’re welcome.”

He came from a generation when courtesy was the norm, not the exception. When people said “Thank you” when someone went out of their way on their behalf. When ladies would have not only said, “Thank You!,” but would have told him to have a very nice day.

Again, the problem is that our generation expects the world to lay down at its feet. If it doesn’t, you’ll hear grumbling, sarcasm, yelling (that’s something else people are doing more than ever, too), etc. That shouldn’t be the only time we speak up, should it?

A gracious person is a beautiful, beautiful thing…and an ingrate?  Straight up ugly.

Joi

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