What does grateful living mean to you? Occasional thank-yous, or a constant state of gratefulness for everything, good or bad? I admit it is not easy to be grateful for a bad day, but any given day means so much - one more day lived in your life.

I say thank you for every single day to God, or to the universe, or to my body. I have pretty painful legs, but these legs have walked and still walk on this earth an immeasurable number of steps, so I say thank you to them.

No legs? Accidents? Serious illness? Feeling down and ungrateful will not give you back what you lost. If your heart is still full of grace, it touches everybody and everything around you and beyond, with a light so much needed in the darkness of the present state of the world.