He became grateful for the published lists once it became his job to help assemble an Israeli team.
In second grade, Roland Ozolinsch sat next to me, and he had such a hard time learning to spell his own name that I became grateful for mine's brevity.
"I have become grateful for this experience of suffering, having used it to examine deeply all aspects of my life, and my role in the circumstances that led to this painful time for my beloved family and commonwealth," said McDonnell, a devout Catholic.
Haig Balian, the director of ARTIS Royal Zoo, in Amsterdam, told me that he had first reacted to Marius's death by asking himself, "How stupid can you be?" He then became grateful for the controversy, because it had placed questions about the purpose of zoos "in the middle of society".
I've become grateful for many lessons learned "the hard way".
It gets to the point when we become grateful for any scene in which two characters talk to each other for any extended period of time.
In that moment I was shocked to realize that, indeed, I had to bless the pain and become grateful for it.
Something that's amazing about the show (which you can easily become conditioned to as a viewer) is how quickly the contestants become grateful for things that they would normally expect when it comes to a relationship.
I became grateful for my friend's wisdom, for without his statement about blessing, I might have missed the connection between my pain and the greater need; I might have missed the moment of grace that brought me in from the suburbs to the Heart of God.
Then I became grateful, not just for how she helped us, but for basic elements of my own family life.
