I think my mother taught me this and her mother too in various ways. This is something that if you are taught this as a child it can stay with you throughout your life. Gratitude is for family so you don't have to grow up alone. Though I was an only child I did have cousins both in Seattle, where I lived until I was 4 who lived on the same 2 1/2 acres that I did which was my grandfather's of Apple trees and Black Cherry Trees and Raspberries and Boysenberries then. I still remember being in my little metal toy car that was sort of a light brown that had peddles a little like a bike and a steering wheel that actually steered the thing and rolling down the driveway in this thing with my older cousins laughing at one thing or another (a boy and a girl. The boy was 5 years older than me and the girl was 7 years older than me.
So, I was taught to be grateful for my parents and grandparents and cousins especially. Then later I was grateful for friends in the public Schools I attended. Later I was sent to a private church High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico from Glendale, California where I had gone to Glendale High School for my sophomore through Junior year. So, I was grateful to be in a school where I didn't have to fight anyone or worry about getting stabbed by anyone. In Santa Fe, I was the biggest, tallest, and strongest person there so no one messed with me and all the younger children looked up to me. So, this was nice not to have to struggle for survival while I was there at this private school.
This taught me that I might like to go to college as I found out that College isn't dangerous like High School Can be. I suppose you could say that college isn't physically dangerous only psychologically dangerous if you aren't well grounded and balanced when you go there.
So then, I was grateful for College because I always loved to learn new things in my life.
By God's Grace
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