There are so many thousands of things for which we should be thankful, and can be thankful, that the average individual is unlimited of the debt of gratitude that he owes his Maker and Mankind in general. While we give thanks to God and the natural things he has provided for us, let us also be mindful of sacrifice made my Man himself in the past to contribute to our needs and improve and advance civilization.
From the time that we rise in the morning and can use clean, cold water to take our bathe and for other necessary uses, for which we should give thanks to science and human invention for the modern hygienic facilities we enjoy, to the hour that we place our tired bodies upon a comfortable bed or even on the floor of a protected room to close our eyes in slumber and express appreciation for man’s ingenuity in devising homes and enclosures and beds and protection against winter and harmful elements, we should be conscious of each and every little thing that men and women have conserved and planned, invented and devised in the past centuries to evolved modern civilization conveniences.
We may feel that when we purchased a sewing machine, or an automobile, an electric iron or a light bulb or a box of matches that we have duly compensated for what we received with the exchange of money, and no obligation rest upon us, and that the manufacturer and dealers who handle the articles have been paid, and even the man even the man who invented this devices has received in the past, or receiving now through royalty, his recompense.
But the amount we paid for matches, automobile and various devices can never fully compensate and repay those who have given out there mind and body for the benefit of Mankind. Back of each little simple invention and humanly invented device are hours of toil and struggle, hours of pain and worry, and an endless chain of sacrifice and devotion.
So to make ourselves happy and to encourage thinkers, we should always appreciate God and Man for what we enjoying today through modernization and civilization.
Selflessness Leads to Greatness
On the other hand, it is a notable fact that the greatest of all human inventions from the dawn of civilization to this hour are those which were born out of love for achievement or attainment in the contributions to civilization, and which have brought toothier inventor no money, no financial support, but only years of sacrifice and suffering. If monuments could be built to those who have given us marvelous devices of usefulness, and who passed out of this life in poverty and want, and never saw the material benefits of their conceptions, but who nevertheless persevered that the concept might be recreated in our lives, we would have a field of monuments far more extensive and significant than the museum filled with the small monuments of those who gave their lives in war.
It is to these millions of contributors to our worldly benefits, as we as to God for blessings of life, that we should pay thanks and show our appreciation on Thanksgiving Day, and each of the year should be one of thanksgiving for something, and should make it our business along with our daily prayers and petitions for continued blessings to be appreciative of the things we are now enjoying everyday of our life, as well as those blessings which we have had in the past.
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