Giving credit where credit is due

Growing up I was never big into sending thank you notes. It wasn’t until I was married that my wife, as she says, “trained me” and I began to send thank you notes to people. Even after almost 13 years of marriage, my wife still has to remind me on occasion to send them out.

It’s not that I don’t want people to know how thankful I am and how much I appreciate them. It’s just something that I seem to have a bad habit of overlooking. Yes, I admit it; it’s a bad habit.

I don’t think there are too many people who struggle with being thankful. I just think there are a lot of people who struggle with...