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"Therefore the prayer of thanksgiving should be quite specific: 'I thank thee for this friendship, this threat overpassed, this signal grace.' 'For all thy mercies' is a proper phrase for a general collect, but not a private gratitude. If we are 'thankful for everything,' we may end by being thankful for nothing."
~George Buttrick, excerpted from Devotional Classics, a Renovaré resource for spiritual renewal.

To be thankful for everything is to be thankful for nothing. It’s a gut-punch of a...