https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/gratitude-basic-necessary
MGB:_A very good essay and a very Happy Thanksgiving! I suspect the profoundest gratitude this year will be in Puerto Rico, where although most lost everything, they are grateful for their very lives in much the same way 12 steppers are. Gratitude is the antedote for self-pity, which is a different form of pride. When God has spared your life and you respond with gratitude, your life is no longer your own. It is God’s. This means it cannot be claimed by depression or the Capitalist, much as they would like to, either in work or in consumption. Without God, capitalism becomes a totalitarian system. With God, there are some things that cannot be touched.
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