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One of my favorite quotes that reminds me to be thankful comes from H. U. Westermayer. He noted:

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.
No Americans have been more impoverished than these
who, nevertheless,
set aside a day of thanksgiving.

During difficult times like the ones many of us are living in now, it may be challenging to try and find something to be thankful for or a reason to give thanks.

The Give Thanks on Thanksgiving lens is a reminder of some of those things. It was also the main reason for creating a Month of Thanks Challenge.

You can Share What You are Thankful for in this Month on the Month of Thanks lens, the Give Thanks on Thanksgiving lens or post why you are thankful in the Month of Thanks thread in the Squidu forums.

P.S. I am also thankful that the charity work on Squidoo has not gone unnoticed. See today’s LOTD Blog Post.

The Month of Thanks Challenge was held over the month of November to give lensmasters a chance to be thankful, raise awareness about hunger and make lenses to benefit hunger related Squidoo Charities.

The challenge is being done to help us realize that even in the midst of everything that is going on, we still have a lot to be thankful. The month of November, the month of Thanksgiving is a good time to stop, take a moment and give thanks.

About the Challenge

We had a lot of great lenses submitted for a Month of Thanks and the five hunger related charities, over 60 lenses.

25 – Action Against Hunger
7 – Food for Everyone Foundation
15 – Heifer International
7 – Oxfam America
7 – Planet Gumbo

Topics ranged from serious, like the winning lenses for a Month of Thanks Feed The Hungry from pmolinero, to heart-felt like  Giving Thanks and Giving Back from Starving Artist (from Angelina) and even to “The Worst Lens Ever Made” (from Mortira).

The Winning Lenses

1. Feed The Hungry from pmolinero
2. Partnership For Safety from Big Jim
3. Action Against Hunger from Comfortdoc

Pmolinero plans to “donate $0.05 for every comment left on the Feed the Hungry lens from now until Thanksgiving, 27th of November 2008.”

Still Time to be Thankful

Even though the winning lenses have been announced, there is still time left in November to be thankful. You can Share What You are Thankful for in this Month on the lens or post why you are thankful in the Month of Thanks thread in the Squidu forums.

I am very thankful and grateful to all who participated in the Month of Thanks Challenge.