Being Thankful

As the week of Thanksgiving has just passed many people like to express their gratitude for people, events or situations that have changed them, blessed them, or simply made them smile. But sometimes we can be generic unemotional when we think about how thankful we should be about the amazing life that God has given us. Down to the very smallest cell that contains Ribosomes and the Golgi and the ER, both smooth and rough and without that cell performing it's duty, something might not work, something inside of us may go wrong, something that in turn may change our life. Without the Golgi the newly finished proteins couldn't be packaged and sorted. It is a bit like not having any mail sorters. Sure the mail gets to the post office, but if there is no one to sort and bundle the mail, how is the postman meant to know what to do with it? Without the Endoplasmic Reticulum there wouldn't even be any proteins for the Golgi to sort. Do you ever sit and think to yourself that it is amazing that you are alive and your body can keep functioning on it's own as long as you exercise, give your body nutrients and energy and keep hydrated? By doing so you keep every little cell doing it's job and without the ER and the Golgi, who make and package the proteins which do all the specialized jobs of the cell, you wouldn't be functioning. It is a huge blessing to be healthy and be functioning normally because as soon as one little thing in a cell goes wrong, a lot of things can go wrong causing diseases like Cancer to begin. In just one little cell, a disease that changes millions of lives, begins. 1 cell. That is all it takes. So maybe instead of just saying that one is thankful to be healthy and not thinking anymore about it, think about how grateful you are that you do not have to deal with that one little cell that went wrong. Happy Thanksgiving!