In Genesis 32:27, the Torah says that a man wrestled with Jacob until dawn. The stranger then said, "Release me, for dawn is breaking." According to a midrash in the Talmud (Hullin 91a), Jacob said to the man, "What are you? Are you a thief or a dice player who is afraid of the daylight?" The angel responded, "I am a an angel, and since the day I was created, I have never before had an opportunity to recite the Psalm of the Day." (Angels do not live in our world, so they never see sunrise. This angel had never seen a sunrise and so he wanted to celebrate the event by reciting shir shel yom, the Psalm of the Day.
This teaches us that we should be grateful even for things like sunrises that seem ordinary and not worthy of our thought. Other things in this category include sunsets, breathing, the ability to walk, eyesight, etc.
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