Thankful, Grateful and Praiseful

A couple weeks ago, my husband and I went to St. George for the weekend.  We had a ton of fun rock climbing, going to Tuachan and visiting Zion National Park. (Can I just say how beautiful Zions is!) Well we hiked Angel's landing and the Narrows and loved every bit of it.  Angel's Landing was frightening and I just about puked hiking up there.  But as we were hiking I was overcome with a feeling of gratitude.  How blessed am I to have a healthy body to be able to do this.  How grateful am I to be able to walk and run, to hear and see!

Well this past Sunday, we had a wonderful lesson on gratitude and that just reminding me of the blessing that I and all of us have been given.  We have these wonderful bodies that the Lord has blessed us with.  Our bodies are so intricate and detailed that only our Heavenly parents could have created such a thing.  We should be showing our gratitude to the Lord every opportunity we have.

During the lesson a scripture was shared, Mosiah 2: 20-21

20 I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the^athanks and ^bpraise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and ^cpreserved you, and has caused that ye should ^drejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another—
 21 I say unto you that if ye should ^aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is ^bpreserving you from day to day, by lending you ^cbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own ^dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ^ewhole souls yet ye would be ^funprofitable servants.

The only way we can show God how grateful we are for our bodies is to serve Him and do His work.  Let us, sisters, remember the blessing it is to have a healthy body and use it for good, to serve our creator.