Happy Thanksgiving to each and everyone of you! Thank you for listening to this podcast. I thought it would be wonderful to hear from young adults about their views on gratitude and living in a spirit of gratitude. Join me today as I have a conversation with nine of my nieces and nephews about their lives, and how they show gratitude to others. Also, how they feel gratitude in their hearts. 

"But some might say, “What do I have to be grateful for when my world is falling apart?”

Perhaps focusing on what we are grateful for is the wrong approach. It is difficult to develop a spirit of gratitude if our thankfulness is only proportional to the number of blessings we can count. True, it is important to frequently “count our blessings”—and anyone who has tried this knows there are many—but I don’t believe the Lord expects us to be less thankful in times of trial than in times of abundance and ease. In fact, most of the scriptural references do not speak of gratitude for things but rather suggest an overall spirit or attitude of gratitude.

It is easy to be grateful for things when life seems to be going our way. But what then of those times when what we wish for seems to be far out of reach?

Could I suggest that we see gratitude as a disposition, a way of life that stands independent of our current situation? In other words, I’m suggesting that instead of being thankful for things, we focus on being thankful in our circumstances—whatever they may be." Dieter F Uchtdorf, April 2014

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