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Paisley: Hey everybody, welcome
back Paisley in perfect here and

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today we are going to talk about
gratitude, because I have a lot

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to be thankful for.

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My thoughts today are going to
be coming mostly from President

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monson's talk from the 2010

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October General Conference. It's
titled The divine gift of

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gratitude. And I'm not going to
do my usual really deep dive

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into it this time, because I'm

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I'm feeling the lightness that
comes with gratitude today, and

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so I want to keep it light.
We'll keep it light. We'll keep

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it short

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so President Monson says, do we
remember to give thanks for the

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blessings we receive? Sincerely,
giving thanks not only helps us

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recognize our blessings, but it
also unlocks the doors of heaven

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and helps us feel God's love. So
we feel God's love through

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gratitude.

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Just a couple of days ago, I was
in a very dark place, and I

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don't want to give too many
details, because they're not my

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details to give, but I will tell
you this, I was worried about a

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loved one, and I was worried to
the point that everything seemed

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very dark and scary.

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Satan had a hold of my thoughts,
and every rabbit hole that I

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went down was one just filled
with despair. I can't think of

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another word to describe it. I
tried to pull myself out, though

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I will admit that I did not
think to make a list of my

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blessings. I didn't think about
gratitude. I wish that I would

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have, I wish I would have
thought to make that list of all

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of the things that I'm grateful
for, because I think it probably

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would have helped. But those
rabbit holes were dark and deep

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and scary, and I just,

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I just didn't, I just didn't
think about gratitude or being

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grateful.

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I did, finally, on Sunday night
thing to ask for a blessing, and

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some comfort came, and I was
told, not in so many words, to

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exercise my faith and let the
Holy Ghost comfort me. The

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reminders that I received during
that blessing were things that I

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felt grateful for during and
after the blessing was over, but

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I wasn't reminded to be
grateful. I was reminded to

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exercise my faith and let my
faith be bigger than my fear,

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but also almost instantly, I
felt grateful for the reminders,

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and that tiny little seed of
gratitude started to grow today,

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I am thankful for the
ministering brother who came

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over last night to help with the
blessing, along with a family

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friend who was here as well. I
am grateful for smart people who

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become doctors and use their
talents to take care of our

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loved ones. Another quote from
President Monson from the same

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talk, he said, regardless of our
circumstances,

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regardless of our circumstances.
So for me, regardless of what

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dark rabbit hole I have gone
down now, each of us has much

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for which to be grateful, if we
will, but pause and contemplate

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our blessings. This is a
wonderful time to be on Earth.

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While there is much that is
wrong in the world today, there

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are many things that are right
and good. There are marriages

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that make it, parents who love
their children and sacrifice for

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them, friends who care about us
and help us, teachers who teach

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our lives. Are blessed in
countless ways, and I am here to

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tell you that this next quote
from President Monson sums up

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nicely how I'm feeling today. He
said, those things which provide

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deep and lasting happiness and
gratitude are the things which

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Money cannot buy. Our families,

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excuse me, our families, the
Gospel, good friends, our

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health, our abilities, the love
we receive from those around us.

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Those are the things that are
helping me feel light today.

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Those are the things that helped
me when I was down in that

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rabbit hole, be able to see a
light shining down on me. And

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like I said at the beginning,
though, I want to keep this

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light and

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so there are two final quotes
that I want to leave with you

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from this talk. The first one,
he said, a grateful heart then

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comes through expressing
gratitude to our Heavenly Father

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for his blessings and to those
around us for all that they

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bring into our lives.

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This requires conscious effort,
at least until we have truly

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learned and cultivated an
attitude of gratitude. Often we

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feel and intend to express our
thanks, but forget to do so, or

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just don't get around to it.
Someone has said that feeling

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gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and

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not giving it. I.

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I am so grateful for the people
in my life. I'm grateful for my

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village, and I need to make sure
that I tell them. The final

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quote that I share from
President Monson is this quote,

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to express gratitude is gracious
and honorable. To enact

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gratitude is generous and noble,
but to live with gratitude ever

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in our hearts is to touch
heaven. I'm sure that there is

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something that we can all feel
gratitude for today, tonight or

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tomorrow. Just find one thing
and let it grow in your heart

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until you feel this lightness. I
cannot promise I will feel this

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again tomorrow or the day after
that. I hope that I do and I

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hope going forward, that I
remember when I am in those

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deep, dark holes

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to think of things that I am
grateful for so that I can start

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to again see the light at the
end of the tunnel. Thank you for

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being here today. Thank you for
being a part of my village. I

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appreciate all of your uplifting
comments and all of your

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encouragement. Keep it coming. I
will love it. In the meantime,

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keep growing, keep learning and
find something to be grateful

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for, until next time you guys,
you.