Parker County Today November 2015 | Page 6

An Order of Gratitude NOVEMBER 2015 PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY Gratitude is a beautiful thing. But somehow gratitude seems to be going out of fashion. It’s been replaced by and large by witty blogs that criticize things people do out of sheer kindness. It almost seems that the world likes to punish people for their good intentions. I just read an article entitled, Stupid Things People Say When You’re Grieving. It basically rips apart every platitude ever muttered in a funeral receiving line. By the same token, it belittled anyone who ever whispered any of these unoriginal condolences to a bereaved friend, loved one or acquaintance. I googled, “Stupid Condolences People Say to the Bereaved.