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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 42 - Sunday, April 26, 2020

“Say thank you, a thousand times thank you”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
What do they say?
Remember when we were children and our parents would ask, “what do
we say? We say, ‘thank you’!” Couldn’t this time of confinement we are living
through be an opportunity to rediscover the importance of ‘thank you’, of
saying thank you?
Confinement makes us aware that there are many things in life that we
take for granted. A little like someone who takes health for granted. But when
we fall ill, we tell ourselves that health is important, it’s not something we take
for granted.

In the same way, we can sometimes take for granted our daily lives, the
love we have in our daily lives, the ties that we have with family. And one way
to overcome this, so to speak, this instability we have of quickly taking for
granted what is given to us, is to learn to say thank you and not to be shy to say
thank you.
Do you say ‘thank you’ to each other in the family? Say it more than ever
before, say thank you for each other’s just being there, for listening, for speak-
ing, for sharing, for gestures of affection. Just say thank you.
To say ‘thank you’ is to say thank you to each other, it is to say ‘thank you’ in
a broader sense in society, but it is also to say ‘thank you’ to God! To say thank
you to God for his life, his presence, his fidelity, his mercy, his patience. To say
thank you to God, for his beauty, the beauty of his work! To say thank you to
God.
Let us learn this Sunday, let us ask for the grace to learn to give more room
for thanks.

What do we say? Thank you!

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 53