Being grateful enables you to see beauty in common places, joys in the midst of sorrows and peaceful things in the midst of a storm.  Being grateful enables you to know you are loved and particularly blessed by your Father.  There is no place in life that will not be made better by gratitude.  There is not a night so dark that gratitude won’t let in light.  There is not a burden so heavy that gratitude can’t lighten the load.

“Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples.” 1 Chronicles 16:8 (NASB)