Gratitude

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives. (Terry Lynn Taylor in Thinking Outside the Church, by Jennifer Leigh Selig, p. 237)

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• We went out and joined the shopping madness yesterday afternoon. We went to the Towne Center mall at Bowie, Maryland where we shopped at Macy's and Sears. I didn't realize there's a Ritz Camera store there until we got back home. So much for good planning.

• In the evening I discovered that the football game between Nebraska and Colorado was on TV. I read the wrong Saturday and Sunday schedule in The Post. I watched the end of the game. It was close. Nebraska finally pulled off the win. The ending was exciting.

• During the week somebody stole four, very expensive, "En Vogue" wheels and tires from the white Cadillac of one of my neighborhood friends who lives at the bottom of the hill. They crooks put the car up on blocks and broke the four locks on the tires. Previously someone broke the windshield out on one of the two cars of his next door neighbor. It's a grim situation! Everytime someone perpetuates a crime against one of us we are tested, especially at this time of thanksgiving.

Mr. Dickie