"Thank you, thank you!": Mother Gavrilia on gratitude that leaves no room for asking

A short saying of Mother Gavrilia, written in Serbian, on what happens when a person is truly thankful to God for the gifts poured out on them. She says that at such a moment a person has no time to ask God for anything else, and can hardly wait to say: "Thank you, thank you!" Gratitude then spreads over everything one sees: meeting a person calls for thanks, seeing a flower calls for thanks, a glass of milk calls for thanks.

For everything, thank you. She adds that such joy enters a person's life so fully that even those closest to them cannot understand it, and she recalls a question she once heard: "What is this now?!" She then tells of her time in England, when someone asked her: "What happened? Why are you so cheerful?" Her answer: "Because I am alive and because I see you!"

The card closes with her own farewell to the reader: "I wish you a pleasant day!" The text is signed by Mother Gavrilia. There is no further discussion in the post; it consists entirely of this saying, which moves from thanksgiving for gifts, through thanks for ordinary things and people, to the joy that puzzles others, and ends with the memory of her reply in England and her greeting.