Only Those Who Thank

Jim’s good recent posts from Fr. Schmemann have prompted me to pick back up my copy. So much to ponder. Here’s something short. The last week our house has been filled with teenagers as my best friend and colleague from Colorado came to visit with her crew, and my eldest daughter has struck up a friendship with the boy next door.

Youth does not know death because it does not know life. This knowledge comes after “we have seen the evening light.” “And the evening and the morning were the first day” (Genesis 1:5). The young live; they do not thank. And only those who thank truly live.

~ Fr. Schmemann, Journals, August 23, 1975

Thankfulness. I do believe this is the key to it all. How to get there?