"So now that we know that thankfulness is the will of God -- in EVERY THING, are we doing it? I mean the good stuff AND the bad stuff? Hmmmm."

Not sure what you mean by the bad stuff.Not everything that happens to us is the will of God.Jesus did tell us to pray that God's will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. We have choices and we receive what we sow according to those choices and we have an enemy who comes to steal kill and destroy.

Now I would certainly agree that God can place us in situations that may seem bad to us but we are there to help and often learn.I use John 10:10 as the dividing line. If something has come to kill steal or destroy, it didn't come from God.