Our tradition teaches us to be grateful everyday for the most obvious and yet essential blessings of the day.
If we acknowledge these gifts on a daily basis, we will be less apt to take for granted life’s blessings and simple pleasures.
Today, focus on the prayer that gives thanks for our miraculous body and how it functions: “Praised are You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the universe, who with wisdom fashioned the human body, creating openings, arteries, glands and organs, marvelous in structure, intricate in design. Should but one of them, by being blocked or opened, fail to function, it would be impossible to exist. Praised are You, God, healer of all flesh who sustains our bodies in wondrous ways.”
Be thankful when it all works.
— Cantor Nathan Lam