“We have more cause for thanksgiving than any previous generation”

My Thanksgiving column for 2016 has appeared:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865667934/We-have-more-cause-for-thanksgiving-than-any-previous-generation.html

I wish everyone out there a happy Thanksgiving Day.  And even if today isn’t Thanksgiving in your country (or the Erntedankfest, or whatever your language may call it), I wish you a wonderful day and hope that you will take the opportunity to reflect on the many remarkable blessings that have come to you.

I’ll tell you one thing that I’m grateful for, being where I am at the moment, with its omnipresent history:  I’m grateful that I live in a country that, despite its sharp political divisions, isn’t torn by civil war.  That’s no small thing.  Some countries are not currently so fortunate.

Posted from Richmond, Virginia