Jingle All the Way

“Do material possessions make us happy and grateful? Perhaps momentarily. However, those things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us. Unfortunately, these are some of the things we allow ourselves to take for granted. The English author Aldous Huxley wrote, ‘Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.’ We often take for granted the very people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express that gratitude. Speaking of loved ones he had lost, one man declared his regret this way: ‘I remember those happy days, and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due them in life, and so ill returned.’” – Thomas S. Monson