grateful

There is a line in the play "Our Town" that inquires whether or not people realize life while they live it. I believe that we can. And when we do realize life while we live it, we are brought to a response of gratitude. To realize life while we live it is to be grateful for it all--sorrow and joy, suffering and comfort, pain and pleasure, failure and success. It is to be grateful for life and to live our lives as an expression of that gratitude: to share that gratitude with others, to celebrate the beauty of the ordinary and the small, to break through our callousness and numbness, our blindness and dumbness, with wonder and awe. To worship