The Secret to Happiness

Gratitude is not an attitude we cultivate well, is it?
Even on Thanksgiving Day, we are more likely to concentrate on the turkey or the television than on giving thanks.
But, perhaps we would think differently about thankfulness if we realized its extraordinary power to improve our lives.

One popular writer has proposed a convincing argument that gratitude is nothing less than the key to happiness.

Dennis Prager writes in Happiness is a Serious Problem: “There is a ‘secret’ to happiness, 
and it is gratitude. 
All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. 
We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. 
Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”'

Think about it: All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy.

This is a keen observation, isn’t it? 
And, I think it helps explain why the Judeo-Christian tradition places such emphasis on thanking God.
The liturgy is filled with expressions of gratitude.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, begins the 92nd Psalm.
Why?
Because God needs our gratitude?
No: because we need it.