Over 6,000 utility crew members from states as far away as Arizona and North Carolina came to our rescue as the city of Tulsa, in fact 45% of the state of Oklahoma, was crippled by the worst ice storm in the state’s recorded history.
I, personally, spoke to crews from North Carolina, Minnesota, Kentucky and Georgia, [...]

BY ELIZABETH KALFSBEEK
December 20, 2007
Woodland, CA
Now that the Thanksgiving is past and Christmas is near, does that mean giving thanks is passé? Not if you want to improve relationships, health and obtain an overall sense of peace, according to Dr. Robert Emmons, UC Davis psychology professor and author of “Thanks! How the New Science of [...]

By Mary Childress
Charleston Daily Mail
Students in Louise Tabor’s kindergarten class at Weimer Elementary School in St. Albans received early Christmas presents last week.
All 11 students in the class were thrilled to get miniature stuffed camels from a West Virginia soldier serving in Iraq. It was his gift back to the class. All the students in [...]

I am Grateful for:

My boys!
My Friends and Family!
My youngest brother is alive
My youngest babe is ok from his near tragic accident
My moms vehicle (it doesn’t sound like dog s#$t any more/muffler problem)
My electric blanket
Warm baths
I got all A’s so far in my first semester in college
The women’s shelter has found some info from ME useful [...]

I am thankful that I am being set free from a victim mentality. As long as I am the victim I am giving power to someone else. Awareness is the start. You have to recognize your condition before you can ever change it. I am shifting my attitude. Sometimes it is hard to take responsibility, [...]

I am thankful for my writing teachers who see the potential of where I can go. They help me form the vision. I just need to pick up the faith and move. God made everything to reproduce after its kind. Little parts of my teachers are being birthed in me.
I am thankful that today I [...]

I am thankful today that I had a mother and a father who loved me. I hear so many today who don’t want to take responsibility for their lives and blame their parents for everything. We’ve heard stories up to ying yang about how they came from a dysfunctional family. Well if you ask me, [...]

Submitted by Irene Trueheart
I am thankful today that the weather has been unseasonably warm where I live. You see, I haven’t purchased oil for my furnace yet. I am thankful that I have had to endure financial hardship because it has taught me a lot about not loving money or things. I believe that when [...]

Submitted by Sandy Shiflett
I am grateful for my family, for all the wonderful people whom I have the pleasure to be related. To pick one story or one incident would be like numbering the stars or the grands of sand on the beach. I love all the quirks, and the different personalities that encompass my [...]

Submitted by Mereki
I give gratitude to God everyday just for being alive and for the chance to be better than I was yesterday. Every day of gratitude is one step closer to true enlightenment which is my ultimate goal.
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