This month our thoughts turn to gratitude. I was pleasantly surprised to receive so many articles on gratitude; in fact, many more than I had space to print. The topics ranged from gratitude for strength in trials; to gratitude for a house full of messy children with their attendant dishes and laundry and toys; to gratitude for the journey of learning through infertility, health trials and personal hurdles. They covered simple “thank you’s” to gratitude for fasting.

These sentiments are in keeping with the Lord’s admonitions on gratitude. Counsel to receive “all things with thankfulness” is coupled with blessings: receiving the kingdom and the blessings thereof, the riches of eternity; being made glorious, receiving the things of the earth, even an hundred fold, yea, more (See D&C 78: 17-22).

What a glorious God He is to ask us to incorporate a principle in our lives which brings uncounted immediate blessings and eternal blessings too. I am grateful for the precious keys of knowledge that have been restored to us in the latter days; for the prophet Joseph Smith who was the instrument of revealing truth, and for his successors. I am thankful for living prophets and apostles who teach and testify of truth with boldness.

I am thankful for stories recorded in the scriptures which teach and testify as surely today as when they were written. I am thankful for a merciful God who delights to bless His children who humble themselves before Him. I am thankful for the gift of the Holy Ghost who comforts and testifies of truth. I am most grateful for our
Savior, Jesus Christ. There are not words to do justice for His gifts to us.

All this, and a roof overhead, food to eat, clean water to drink, clothes to wear and family too. I guess the riches of eternity are already mine.

All the best,

Editor@DesertSaintsMagazine.com