Gratitude For Meals On Wheels Volunteers In New Rochelle

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — All through November, Patch asked readers to share who they're grateful for. New Rochelle resident Fran Stachnik thanked all the volunteers who make the city's Meals on Wheels program such a success.

Here's the message Stachnik shared:

Meals-on-Wheels of New Rochelle is very grateful to the many kind and caring VOLUNTEERS who deliver daily hot meals to all our homebound senior clients. We Thank each and every one of you!! Your generosity has been life-saving!!

Patch is grateful to Stachnik for sharing with us during our project "30 Days Of Gratitude," a series to remind us of the goodness and joy in our lives. We wanted to share the gratitude as widely as we could.

For more than 30 years, Meals on Wheels of New Rochelle's volunteers have delivered more than 360,000 hot, nutritious meals, also providing daily social contact for meal recipients. To volunteer, call 914-576-3865. By the way, the organization has a new MOWNR Monthly Friendship Circle. You can change a life by contributing monthly. Learn more on the website, here.

Living with gratitude is a matter of continually counting one’s blessings while at the same time recognizing that the source of goodness in one’s life is other people.

Robert A. Emmons, a University of California, Davis, psychology professor known as the “father of gratitude,” said this of gratitude:

“Gratitude is an affirmation of the goodness in one’s life and the recognition that the sources of this goodness lie at least partially outside the self. It emerges from two stages of information processing: affirming and recognizing. Gratitude is the recognition that life owes me nothing and all the good I have is a gift. It is a response to all that has been given. So it is foundationally and fundamentally a way of looking at life.”