‘… give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.’ (1 Thessalonians 5 vs 18 NIV)
People’s circumstances are all different from each other. For example, you might be reading this comment today and you are sitting at home. Someone else reading it might be glancing at it briefly on a bus or on a factory floor. But there are other ways in which circumstances differ; the student, the widow, the bereaved, the new parent, the person enjoying a day off, the man or woman longing for work.