Thankful for The Little Things

  "The things you take for granted... 

    ...someone else is praying for."

-anonymous 

     I take so much for granted. I take my home for granted. My cellphone, my bed. The fact that I get to come home to dinner every night, and never go hungry or thirsty. The simple fact that I have clean drinking water at all times of the day, when there are kids who go parched because their only water source is either a far walk or could cause sickness. I take my education for granted, even complain that I have too much homework, when there're kids all over the world who would give anything to go to my school. I take my siblings for granted, and the fact that my mom and dad are both alive and healthy. This entire life. This is how our generation is. We always want more, and try to obtain "better" than what we have, meanwhile forgetting how fortunate we are to just wake up healthy every day. 
      There are so many people in this world who can't function without aid, and who struggle to do something as simple as breathing. There are kids who spend their childhoods in hospital beds, and kids who don't even know what its like to wake up to family and presents on Christmas morning. There are people who will never leave the places they grow up in, yet most of us have gone on vacations, probably even more than one. I take my freedom for granted. The fact that God placed me in a place where I can freely worship him and not fear death because of it. Why do we feel the need to spend time complaining about things  in our lives, and little things as that, when our time should be spent thanking God for what he's doing in our lives currently? When I pray, I always thank Him for so much in my life. But, I always forget to thank Him for my health. How often do we thank Him for giving us eyes and ears that work? Or for giving us the ability to walk, and run, and play sports? Why do we even begin to think we have the right to put ourselves down because of our looks, when we have so much  more than so many people? There are so many people who manage to live without legs and arms, and still be grateful. We have a mouth to speak kind words to people, yet we often forget to. Each day, from the time we wake up, we have the ability to reach out and make at least one person's entire day better, yet we hold back.  
      We have been given everything necessary to experience life fully, a life that we don't even deserve, yet we still take so much for granted everyday and forget how blessed we are just to wake up healthy.

~Thanks for taking the time to read my rambling~

"This is the day the Lord has made;

We will rejoice and be glad in it."

Psalm 118:24