List of points

My Lord, you always come to meet our real needs.

Give thanks often to Jesus, for through him, with him and in him you are able to call yourself a son of God.

Thank you, Lord, because — as well as allowing us to be tempted — you also give us the strength and beauty of your grace so that we can win through! Thank you, Lord, for the temptations you allow us to have so that we may be humble!

The best way of showing our gratitude to God is to be passionately in love with the fact that we are his children.

“O Lord, why did you come looking for me — who am useless — when there are so many people who are holy, wise, rich and full of prestige?”

—You are right… and precisely because of that you should be grateful to him with deeds and love.

“Lord!,” you were telling him, “I like to say thank you. I want to be grateful to everyone, always.”

—Well, look: you aren’t a stone… or a speechless tree… or a mule. You are not one of those created things whose life is completed here on this earth. This is because God chose to make you a man or woman, a child of his. And he loves you in caritate perpetua, with an eternal love.

—So you like to be grateful? And are you going to make an exception of your Lord? Make sure that your thanksgiving comes pouring out from your heart every day.

Be grateful to God from the bottom of your heart for those wonderful and awesome faculties he chose to give you when he made you — your intellect and your will. They are wonderful, because they make you like him; and awesome because there are human beings who turn their faculties against their Creator.

It seems to me we could sum up the thankfulness that we owe as children of God by saying to this Father of ours, now and always, serviam!: I will serve you!