After studying for nine years the role that gratitude plays in happiness, Robert A Emmons, a professor of psychology at the University of California -Davis concluded that grateful people are happier people.
“People who show gratitude experience higher levels of joy and other positive emotions, have lower levels of depression are less bothered by minor illnesses, and actually take better care of their health,”Professor Emmons told the Sacramento Bee.
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Helen Keller said: “For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that He has granted me knowledge of His works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to – a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.”
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May your stuffing be tasty,
May your turkey be plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious,
May your pies take the prize.
May your holiday meals stay off of your thighs.”
Lowell Yoder – Holland, OH
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he Puritans were English Reformers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were frustrated by the slow progress of the Reformation in the Anglican Church. They left a legacy of theological writing that is unsurpassed in church history. Their doctrine tended to be Calvinistic and Presbyterian, and their finest writings were both polemic and devotional treatments of theology.
