Now as to how this book came to be. This is actually my own transcribed journal from late 2009,2010, early 2011. This was a time of terrible crisis for me and my family. There were four major tragedies that occurred from July 2009 to October 2009. To list them, our children were taken away from us for 2 months, our son went to jail, my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and I lost my business of 22 years. A week after this all started, on July 29,2009, I woke up at 5:00 AM and was remembering all the times, those first 25 years of marriage that I had been a bad husband and father. I was very often angry and unkind to my wife and children. I laid there crying for about an hour and a half. Not that I was necessarily responsible for every action of those in my family but that I had fostered a bad atmosphere so these terrible situations occurred. I stayed in this quagmire for about three weeks. After which He(God The Father)started coming to me and gave me The Way of Thanksgiving, which is His Will, On Earth as it is in Heaven. The point of this recalling is to emphasize that you will have to start with your own introspection and honestly be sorrowful for your misdeeds. Then and only then is this wonderful grace of thankfulness there to bring you peace and happiness. This was also the best time of my life. Our Father in heaven came to me in this dark time and showed me how these personal crisis are great opportunities for victory through the simple way He showed me about thankfulness and its application. Summer 2009,when these very difficult things were occurring, is when God the Father began showing me the way of Thanksgiving. This way turned that terrible time into the best of my life. I call that summer "the summer of life ". My intention for you, reader, is to find a way to deal with all things in life, good, bad or neutral, through the stories in this book. I had no idea ,at the time I entered these stories in my journal, that the journal as a whole is a comprehensive how-to manual. It is very simple to learn this way of thanksgiving, almost too simple. May the grace of thankfulness inundate every soul on earth.
