Learning to be thankful, whether to God or to other people, is the best vaccination against taking good fortune for granted.
And the less you take for granted, the more pleasure and joy life will bring you.
If you assume that the good things in your life are normal and to be expected, you diminish the happiness they can bring you.
By contrast, if you train yourself to develop the custom of counting your blessings and being grateful for them, you will fill your life with cheer.
Sure, it can be hard to do.
Like most useful skills, it takes years of practice before it becomes second nature.
This is one reason that coming to church and connecting with others leads to happiness - it ingrains the habits of thankfulness.
People who thank God before each meal, for example, inculcate gratitude in themselves.
In so doing, they open the door to gladness.
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