We got home from our Easter lunch with family yesterday, and as Danny walked past me into the closet, he just sighed, that happy kind of sigh that tells you everything is all right with the world.

“We have such a good life,” he said as he dropped his church shirt into the laundry hamper. “Nice family and good food to share. A wonderful house to come home to. A fun job. A good dog. Well, a sometimes-good dog. We can’t take any of this for granted, and it would be so easy for us to.”

He’s right. It’s so easy to just get used to the best parts of our lives, and then to expect more.

“Well, the vacation we went on last year was great . . . but that was last year!” “I love my job, but. . . .” “My house is great, but so-in-so hired an interior decorator and their house looks like it belongs in a magazine.”

It’s so easy to constantly wish for more, more, more and forget how blessed life already is. I do. I love what I’ve been given, but I struggle to simply be grateful for it all without wishing I could make my own little tweaks and changes — and sometimes that’s like ordering a Chef’s signature dish, but asking him to leave out the signature ingredient and add a little of my own favorite seasonings. I need to remember that what God has given me is wonderful, and I don’t need to make any changes God hasn’t seen fit to give me at this time. Being thankful for what I have is so much better than wishing for what I don’t. I am blessed enough.

We received this note from the parents of one of our couples, and it’s a such a lovely reminder when I see it sitting on my counter. Being thankful is beautiful.~ Laura