Attitude of Gratitude?

I went to a business meeting last night. Someone there talked about a book she is reading about gratitude, and it being the key, the “magic”.  I thought a lot about what she said and realized that we have been asked since childhood, “What’s the magic word?” And usually it was “please”. So in a sense we were taught to beg for what we wanted. But our “magic” word should be “thank you!” I have a hard time seeing God as one that wants us to beg for something. We should ask, expect and then thank Him for the answer.

Plus, I googled it, according to the Free Dictionary of idioms:

“What’s the magic word?” (British and Australian)

‘something that you say to a child in order to make them say ‘please’ or ‘thank you’

So they had it partially right! I have started giving thanks for the difficult things to get better, for good things, as they are now, but then giving thanks because they are about to be GREAT!