Younger people often seem to have few worries, since everything is provided free by others, but as one grows older, responsibilities and concerns loom large more and more, and thereby, we ought to grasp how much we depend on our God's goodness to us. It helps us to do so by considering how little others have compared to us. Many live in mud huts, with no utilities, no doctors. In other places, many are martyred for their faith, or for political reasons. Poverty is rampant, with no shelter, little food, and no friends to count on. We see extreme violence today in Gaza, where tens of thousands have been murdered, hundreds of thousands of homes obliterated, and nobody is willing to stop it. Recall how Ethel Waters sang Irving Berlin's song "Suppertime" on the stage in 1933. It is the anguished cry of a black mother who has just learned that her husband has been lynched. She agonizes how she can tell her small children that their father will never be coming home again. She struggles with the problem of her duty to be thankful. She laments: How can I keep from crying when I bring their supper on? How can I remind them to pray at their humble board? How can I be thankful when they start to thank the Lord? Thus we see the problem we sometimes have in thanking the Lord during grief and trials and losses. Nevertheless, we need to give thanks to God in all things, even if only to take notice of the things we have that others don't have. We are to pray for them to be blessed also! The psalmist David had many things to say about thanksgiving to the Lord. Over and over, he exhorts the Lord's people to give thanks to God, to make known His wondrous deeds to all men.