This paperback is a follow-up to Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons' 2009 book Living Life as a Thank You: The Transformative Power of Daily Gratitude. It is amazing to see the path this spiritual practice has taken since Oprah Winfrey years ago suggested that viewers write down three things they are grateful for in a journal every day. Of course, our friend Brother David Steindl-Rast of Gratefulness.org has explored the spiritual dimensions of this practice whereas writers and researchers at The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley are in the last stages of a $5.6 million project from the John Templeton Foundation called "Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude."

Lesowitz and Sammons approach the subject with an eclectic mix of stories, interviews, research, quotations, and practices. In ten chapters they cover a lot of territory with practical material on creating blessings in your life, clarifying your life purpose, increasing productivity and happiness where you work, becoming a more altruistic person, having enough, staying healthy, creating unexpected grace and peace, discovering your desires, and increasing your gratitude quotient. The last chapter contains a small sampling of gratitude practices.