Evelyn Bence was asked by a friend to come visit a shelter for homeless women. While Evelyn did the dishes, she thought what it would be like to sleep in a shelter with strangers. These slept there, but each morning they had to carry their meager possessions with them.
    One of the homeless women has a Ph.D. in art history. Gradually her mind had slipped out of her grasp. Esther, who had talked to herself all evening, was a mother of five children.
    Evelyn Bence silently prayed to herself, "Lord, thank you. Thank you - that I'm not one of them." Immediately she felt guilty for thinking of it this way. It dawned on her that her own comfortable world, her secure home, was not guaranteed. Instead of thinking, "Thank you I'm not one of them," she now thought up a new prayer - "Thank you for the grace you have shown me, and help me to mirror your grace to others."
    Be thankful for God's Undeserved grace.

• It is thanking God for the gift of life by living it triumphantly.
• It is thanking God for you talents and abilities by accepting them as obligations to be invested for the common good
• It is thanking God for all that men and women have done for you by doing things for others.
• It is thanking God for opportunities by accepting them as a challenge to achievement.
• It is thanking God for happiness by striving to make others happy.
• It is thanking God for beauty by helping to make the world more beautiful.
• It is thanking God for inspiration by trying to be an inspiration to others.
• It is thanking God for health and strength by the care and reverence you show your body.
• It is thanking God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress.
• It is thanking God for each new day by living it to the fullest.
• It is thanking God by giving hands, arms, legs, and voice to your thankful spirit.
• It is adding to your prayers of thanksgiving, acts of thanksgiving.