I am amazed at the lack of gratitude in people now days.  I was watching "Love It or List It" this morning and couldn't believe what I saw.  

I am grateful for an inside bathroom=one!  I have a bedroom of my own for the first time in my life.  The roof on our house doesn't leak.  Basement is great and holds way too much but that is my fault for bringing it all home.  We can eat and cook 3 ways, stove, oven and microwave.  We have food enough to last a while.  We have 2 cars.  Money to pay the bills and for gasoline to go to work.  Work to make a way to do what we need.  Clothes and shoes that are in good repair.   Our own washer and dryer!  No need to go to the laundramat!  We have 2 tvs and computer to talk with friends and relatives.  Yard with (tiny) garden space but enough these days.  

My main wish would be for Mom's health to be restored, a good neighbor to talk with and a man I could depend on.  I would like to go back to church and I could if I tried.  Some sunlight would be great--it's so dark this time of year.

Why are glitzy new things so important and status what seems to be guiding these days?  Be grateful for just being able to sleep and rest, then be happy with what you have?   You can always get more "stuff" but the burden is heavy.  Most of it will be back to dust in a hundred years.