Thankfulness or unthankfulness is largely a matter of eyes. Two men look at the same scene: one beholds the defects, the imperfections; the other beholds the beauty, the brightness. If you cannot find things to be thankful for to-day, every day, the fault is in yourself, and you ought to pray for a new heart, a heart to see God’s goodness and to praise him. A happy heart transfigures all the world for us. It finds something to be thankful for in the barest circumstances, even in the night of sorrow. Let us train ourselves to see the beauty and the goodness in God’s world, in our own lot, and then we shall stop grumbling, and all our experience shall start songs of praise in our heart.