More Thanksgiving

There has been some bad news going around lately. I hate that. None of it is specifically happening to me, but it's happening to people I care about. Life doesn't seem fair sometimes.
I know we're all supposed to believe that all things happen for a reason. And I do in fact believe that. But it's hard to accept it as true all the time. How can it be that some things happen to help us learn a certain lesson, or to make us stronger, or to help us become better people? And when bad news is happening to you, I think it's nearly impossible to always say, "What positive thing can I take from this experience?" I suppose that thought process comes much later, at least for some people. If it's one of the first things you think about when bad news happens to  you, then you are a saint.
I've titled this post "More Thanksgiving". Why? Because out of all the bad news, I'm trying to remind myself that no matter what is happening to me, someone else has a much bigger plate of bad news. You know that saying, if we all put our problems in a big pile, and saw what everyone else had, we'd be taking ours back in a heartbeat (or something like that). It's quite true. So I am telling myself to give MORE thanks. To be sincerely thankful for ALL that I have. Unlike some people, I can say I have a job, and so does my husband. We can comfortably afford to live in a home, feed and clothe our family. We are surrounded by family and friends who love us.
I wish life could be easy-breezy for all my family and friends (and everybody else really), but I suppose it can't be. What kind of people would we be if everything went smoothly all the time? Would we really be happier? If everything were just good news all the time, how would we know it was good?
Still, it pains me to see people I know getting bad news. So I'm looking for the silver lining. I'm hoping those around me that are struggling through bad times get some positive news soon.
More often during this year we talk about the Thanksgiving spread. Lots of food right? Maybe we should take more time to Spread Thanksgiving.