It has been another long day, topped off with yet another mass shooting in the United States. My wife is fighting a sinus infection, and the dining room table has been taken over by Christmas crafts projects.

I get home to a makeshift dinner. We eat around the living room table and talk about the news. We take a break to try and lure the cat which has slipped outside, back in. I try to think about the question of the day and write. “What makes you feel grateful?”

Recently, I was at a meeting where a doctor from Nigeria spoke about going on a mission to a poorer part of Nigeria. She talked about how she had thought she was poor until she went on the mission.

So, in spite of the hard day, my wife’s sinus infection, the wayward cat, things are actually really good. What makes me feel grateful? All the little things of life that are so easily taken for granted,