The Power (The Secret, #2)

by Rhonda Byrne

Give thanks for the sun, the water that you drink, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe; without any of them you wouldn’t be alive. Give thanks for the trees, the animals, the oceans, the birds, the flowers, the plants, blue skies, rain, the stars, the moon, and our beautiful planet. Give thanks for the transportation you use every day. Give thanks for all the companies that provide you with essential services so that you can live a comfortable life. So many human beings toiled and sweated so that you can turn on a tap and have fresh water. So many human beings gave their life’s work so that you can flick a light switch and have electricity. Think about the magnitude of human beings who slaved day after day, year after year, to lay the train tracks across our planet. And it’s almost impossible to imagine the number of people who did the backbreaking work of making the roads we drive on that form a connecting network of life for the world. “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) LUTHERAN PASTOR