Every day for the month of November I will post something for which I am grateful. I invite you to join me in this exercise privately or by leaving a comment to share with others. Please share this blog with others and invite them to share this month long practice.
When we live from a place of gratitude within, our energy and being shift, neurobiologists believe it actually rewires the brain. Gratitude regulates the sympathetic nervous system that activates our anxiety response. By living from a place of gratitude we strengthen the mind/body connection. Gratitude causes a physiological response that can help relieve stress and pain, improve health over time and lighten depression.
In short, practicing gratitude can make us kinder more peaceful people.
Today I am grateful for sunrise. It is the promise of a new day, a blank slate on which I will write with the way I live my life.
What are you grateful for today?
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The Irreverent Reverend 
Today on a personal level I am thankful for my primary care doctor who is helping me figure out some
health problems. In a broader view is my gratitude for Doctors Without Borders who work in dangerous places, and for the people who donate to them so they can do their work.
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Today I am grateful for the abundance of love and caring from family and friends that I am so fortunate to have in my life.
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