My prayer is an attitude of pure gratitude for having the opportunity to experience life on this earth with all its pain, heartache, worry, and turmoil; coupled with this gratitude is the thankfulness for just having the opportunity to have lived. That is fairly easy on good days but difficult when life puts rocks and boulders in the road. David W. Earle
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This is a beautiful prayer that I have been using for the last 20 years. Many would say they have been praying for this opportunity but they do not understand the depth of prayer that is behind this  sentence. In the sentence " my prayer is  an attitude  of pure  gratitude , for having the opportunity to experience life on this earth with all its pain, heartache, worry, and turmoil ; coupled with this gratitude is the thankfulness for just having the opportunity to have lived. That is fairly easy on good days but difficult when life puts rocks and boulders in the road." We are expressing how we feel about our lives and what we have been given from God.

We also see how grateful we are for being able to live in a world where there is pain, heartache, trouble and turmoil. We are thankful that we have been given a chance to live. In my opinion this prayer shows gratitude and acknowledgment of our blessings while also serving as a reminder to not take life too seriously and we should know that we will see hardships and things we can't easily get out of.

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