The third area for which often, I suspect, we do not give thanks enough is our political life. Look at the stability we enjoy politically here in Australia. Each one of us is able to vote and choose our democratic masters. I took that very much for granted until I went as an observer for the Catholic Church to the first free all-race elections in 1994 in South Africa. It was just so deeply moving to see enormous queues of local people waiting patiently for the opportunity to vote for the first time in their life.
Children unconsciously are a bit self-centred and have to be trained to learn to say thanks.
One of the characteristics of an adult, one of the characteristics of a Christian adult, is that we are able to say thanks, especially perhaps to those who are closest to us and certainly that we are able to pray in thanks to our good God for the wonderful things we receive. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.