I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

and it's encouraging to see you being thankful, given the trials and struggles that you're going through every day!

It was someone in my small-group, who came over one day out of the blue (after I'd been saying how hard things were), she came over to encourage me, and told me of her own struggles, and how one thing that helped her get through was, at the end of each day, listing five things to thank God for (though it didn't have to be exactly five) and that struck me as a really good thing to do for myself. And I do think it's been helping.

we don't have to be thankful that bad stuff happened to us--we can be honest with God--but we should be thankful that through it all

Yeah, my pastor said something similar: it's "thank God in all things, not thank God for all things"

So sometimes it gets down to the bare "thank you Lord that I'm still breathing" (which is more significant for me, given the nature of my chronic illness)... there's always something to be thankful for, even if it's really simple things.