Even America's poorest are richer than most the world

I am not rich by American standards but I am by the world's standards.

I'm making holiday treats this morning. After my first batch of yum-yums, I was washing my mixing utensils when it dawned on me how rich I am because I have a kitchen sink with running water. It isn't a fancy sink, actually kinda ugly but it serves its purpose. My countertops aren't granite, they are old and have marks from all the use my counters get. Proof of a home with food in it. I am blessed. 

It brought to mind the image I saw on the news one night of a woman in a far way country outside her hovel washing dishes at a community faucet in a bucket  that I would most likely use to soak my feet in. She was smiling. She's probably grateful to have clean water. God bless her. Here in America we are so blessed to have access to clean water in our homes yet we complain about the slightest inconvenience. I guess it's easy to do. You just get used to the conveniences of life, near by grocery store, a car that gets you to where you need to go, shoes with good shoestrings. How do we act when any of these luxuries falter? 

As I jotted down this little note of the day, I winced as I had to stop my writing to go jiggle the handle on my toilet because it wouldn't stop running. I normally have a grateful attitude because I know what it's like to not have. When I was kid, our toilet stopped working so we had to use a port-a-potty and dump it every day in the back yard. I can't believe we did that, I would never dump human waste in the open now. I would bury it. I guess that I am especially sensitive to the everyday luxuries, such as in-door plumbing, because not having is a formidable incentive to be wise about your money and resources and especially to be thankful for what you do have.

Thanksgiving is a time to assess and reset.  Thanksgiving is a time where we all stop to be thankful. 

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. (Psalm 107:1)

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.~Yeshua (Luke 6:35)