For we do not know how little deserving we are of the tender mercies of Heaven. For we have had the protection from on high from the very first. Such is the nature of the world that to realize what things were given us would be a cruel deprivation of the very basic, for it would mean to do without them, the smallest comforts of life. We are not thankful because we have no clue that we are blessed, most of us. Though it would probably do us good in our understanding, some drastic deprivation for a short time (perhaps three days without food?), we are further blessed by being able to understand such things just by thinking. It is something akin to growing up, which not all of us will do. The child, in an average middle class, has no thought to the roof over his head, or the meals at his table. So, too, are we about the grander things of this world. Consider the things we usually never think about, for we have such power. Just look around you, any day, anywhere. And be very, very thankful.