From all of us at ACT Dental, we wish you the happiest of holidays and pray you are all safe, healthy and able to enjoy time with family and friends.

It is a season of gratitude and there is much to be thankful for. We don't simply mean that gratitude is meant for the good things in life, but it is also meant for our trials as well. We need to be grateful for our families, our blessings both personally and professionally, and health that has kept us functional during a year of uncertainty.

But we also need to be grateful for the trials experienced and the lessons we have learned throughout these recent times. We have experienced moments where we have had to reassess our priorities, become more conscientious of helping others, allowed for humility to set in during times where it would have been easy to be upset.

We have been given an opportunity to show who we truly are inside and to be examples to others while lifting up those that need us.

Be thankful, be grateful, be happy by choice and enjoy this holiday season.