Ten steps to a better Thanksgiving

Amy came over to visit one day when I was feeling especially low, and she just listened. Before she left, she offered something her pastor had said the previous Sunday: “When you go to bed each night,” he’d counseled, “count ten things to thank God for in that day.”

But she added, “The catch is that they have to be ten different things each night.” For example I couldn’t just say thank you every night for my son; I would have to think of something in particular he said, or did that made me smile that day.

I didn’t say anything, but the thought in my frame of mind at the time was, “Ten?”