{"id":2645,"date":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2008\/06\/thank-you-for-my-life.html"},"modified":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","slug":"thank-you-for-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2008\/06\/thank-you-for-my-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Thank You for My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God, thank you for my life on this earth, however challenging or not.<br \/>\nThank you for giving me free will to love and be loved, to make my own decisions, to learn from my mistakes, to laugh when I am happy, to cry when I am sad.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for my family, my friends, my pets, my colleagues, and for every other living creature I meet along my journey. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you for giving me strength to overcome adversity, to do what&#8217;s right for the benefit of the greater good, to rise above negativity.  <\/p>\n<p>Thank you for giving me hope for an end to world suffering, pain, and war, for a beginning of a world filled with light and everlasting love.<br \/>\nsource: Excerpted from &#8220;Vita&#8217;s Will&#8221; by permission of the author. 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