While
the industrialized world continues to focus on nuclear issues with North Korea, possible war in Iraq, and the global economy, there are people to whom these things mean relatively little.
Traditions of gratitude are universal and have come to be for good reason. Over the centuries people have seen that it is well worth the effort to count one's blessings, even when they seem few and far between.
The power of Scripture to evolve spiritual and social change has continued throughout the ages. Slow, and sometimes uncertain, but nonetheless progress.