{"id":21545,"date":"2026-03-11T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/give-thanks-for-tax-day\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:12:23","slug":"give-thanks-for-tax-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/give-thanks-for-tax-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Thanks for Tax Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.428571429\">My dad always stayed up late on April 14 working on tax forms. I can see him sitting at his old roll-top desk, stacks of papers and receipts piled up next to him, a calculator ready to add the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNight, Dad,\u201d I said, as I headed off to bed. \u201cThat looks like a lot of work. You must hate having to do our taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked back at me and one would expect a gaze of harried impatience or complete exasperation. Well, yes, there was a furrow or two in his forehead\u2013could he finish it all in time?\u2013but then he said with utter sincerity, \u201cPaying taxes is an opportunity we should all be grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grateful? It\u2019s not a response you hear much. Give thanks for taxes? Thanking God for all those pieces of paper and the forms that need to be filled out with all the correct information? Rushing to the post office on April 15 to make sure it\u2019s all postmarked on the right date? <\/p>\n<p>I suspect most of us dread having to file our taxes. I\u2019ve given up trying to do it myself. If there\u2019s anything I\u2019m grateful for it\u2019s our accountant who knows how to make heads and tails of 1099s and W-2s and Schedule C\u2019s and whatever else he asks for.<\/p>\n<p>But Dad believed April 15 was a time to give thanks, and maybe it was that very feeling that kept him at it late into the night, thanking God for what few of us think of thanking God for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you pay your taxes you\u2019re participating in what our country does,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you have to give thanks that you\u2019ve made enough to even have to pay taxes. I look back over the year and realize how fortunate we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>How fortunate we are.<\/em> That\u2019s the part I try to hold on to at tax time. I can see how much we earned and how much we spent. 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