This month’s emphasis is on gratitude! Each week we will explore how science and inspiration unequivocally associate gratitude with better health! “Nothing tends more to promote health of body and of soul than does a spirit of gratitude and praise. It is a positive duty to resist melancholy, discontented thoughts and feelings–as much a duty as it is to pray.

If we are heaven-bound, how can we go as a band of mourners, groaning and complaining all along the way to our Father’s house?” (MH 251) In a WebMD article for January 11, 2006, Dr. Robert Emmons, a psychology professor at University of California Davis states, “Thousands of years of literature talk about the benefits of cultivating gratefulness as a virtue. Now, through a recent movement called positive psychology, mental health professionals are taking a close look at how virtues such as gratitude can benefit our health. And they’re reaping some promising results.” Of course we have known this for a long time, because the Bible says in Proverbs 15:13, “A merry (glad) heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.” So this week thank God and others for the blessings you receive!