Prayers of thanks come easy in a delivery room with a new baby in your arms, with family and freinds all around , at a party or a camp fire, hiking and seeing nature's splendor, when we're healthy, gainfully employed, well fed and free. These are great moments in life indeed, times to savour and count as blessings in abundance. As great as the blessings in life are, like children being called in from recess, the learning, the growth and the character of a person usually are taught from the experience, hard work and even grief of life's classroom We should be thankful not only for our obvious personal blessings but also for the right to sympathize,to understand,to help, to trust, to struggle, to aspire and to see the miracles and wonders in the people around us in spite of the constant flow of negative media . Maybe good news doesn't sell because theres so much of it. Maybe, it's lost it's value. And when times are unbearable perhaps in our pain and grief