Something  in the book "Draw the Circle:  The 40 Day Prayer Challenge" by Mark Batterson.

In case today, you can't think of anything for which be thankful today:

"After our sermon, I decided to approach your challenge to thank God for the daily miracles we generally take for granted. Knowing the list of thanks could be infinitely long, I decided to focus only on the miracles I was receiving at the moment of my prayer. So I started praying, 'Thank You, God, for aerobic respiration. Thank You for mitochondria, which right now are creating ATP. Thank You for ATP. Thank You for glycolsis. Thank You for pyruvate.'

"With a biology degree, I ended up having a lot of things on the list. By the time I got back to my place in Arlington, I was thanking God for for each of the amino acids. 'Thank You, God for glycine. Thank You for leucine and isoleucine and tryptophan.'

"I started thanking God for the fact that all organisms that form amino acids have the same chirality so that my body can reuse the nutrients and cellular building blocks of the food I break down. I found myself in absolute awe of His creation.

"I prayed while I took a walk outside, thanking Him for bones and ligaments and tendons. I also thanked Him that i somehow never took an anatomy course in college, because otherwise I would have felt compelled to thank Him for each bone by name, which would have definitely set me back even more in my quest to get through most of the miracles I was receiving at that moment.

"I spent the day praying without ceasing! I literally didn't stop and just consciously kept listing things I was thankful for. I listened to music and thanked Him for my ear's cochlea. While I made, dinner, I thanked Him for system in the plants I was preparing. I spent a lot of time thanking Him for the molecular properties of water. I thanked Him for bacteria in my colon that helps me digest food. I thanked Him for the genetic recombination that made developing and cultivating cotton plants possible for the jeans I was wearing.

"At around nine o'clock that night, I think God got amused with the futility of me trying to thank Him for everything. The Spirit finally hushed me, saying, You can stop now!'"

(pages 162 & 163)

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