GK Chesterton Concerning Giving Thanks

You say grace before meals. 
All right. 

But I say grace before 

the concert and the opera, 

and grace before the play and pantomime, 

and grace before I open a book, 

and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, 

fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing 

and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. 

~CK Chesteron

I yearn to be thankful after this manner, not for things of the highest order, but of the most modest.