Thanks Giving

 

I know it’s a little early for a Thanksgiving posts, but we all know that I’m not very good at posting on a regular basis. 

So…the holidays are nearly upon us.  It amuses and depresses me that the Christmas holiday has already began every where I look.  Amusing because there is nothing that people won’t do for money, up to and including exploiting the birth of Christ.  And, I suppose depressed for the same reason.  Kind of takes the special – ness out of that one day, doesn’t it?

But, this isn’t really about Christmas, is it.  I digress!  I am world class at that!

Gratitude is what this is about for me.  Imagine, an entire day where all we do is look around us and see how blessed we are!  Talk about THANKS giving!  It is my challenge to myself this year to thank God for every person in my life, while I am in their presence.  We all know how difficult people can be sometimes, but they are all in our lives for a reason, and it is my goal to love them through it, and thank God for sharing them with me, to love and learn from.

Is that not what Thanksgiving is really about?

 

A Thanksgiving Prayer
by Joseph Auslander

We thank thee for our daily bread,
For faith by which the soul is fed,
For burdens given us to bear,
For help that lifts the heart’s despair.We thank thee, Lord, for eyes to see,
The truth that makes, and keeps us free:
For faults — and for the strength to mend them,
For dreams — and courage to defend them.

We have so much to thank thee for,
Dear Lord, we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
Peace in the whole world on this Thanksgiving.