Say So!

It’s sad good manners are not taught today.  My generation got in trouble when we neglected to say please, thank you, yes sir, yes ma'am, no sir, no ma'am, etc.  I just cringe when I hear... yeah, no, huh, yep, uh-huh.  What a shame manners have been left behind!

In 1860, Edward Spencer was a student at Northwestern University. One morning in September the report came that the finest passenger boat on the Great Lakes had sunk about three miles off shore. He ran to the lake, and, being an excellent swimmer, plunged in and saved a woman clinging to a piece of wreckage. Seventeen times he did this, each time saving a life. The almost superhuman efforts that he thus used broke his health for life and made impossible for him the career he would have otherwise had. When he was an old man, Mr. Spencer acknowledged that not one of the seventeen had ever thanked him.  Grateful living is more than just having good manners; it’s an attitude of the heart -- recognition and acknowledgement of God's Goodness.  A thankful heart steers the spirit and behavior.  Someone once said, "Gratitude is the memory of the heart."  See the good things today and be grateful, then ... say so!