Thanksgiving

It's not about giving thanks for one turkey dinner once a year. It's about gratitude every day that we wake up and discover that we are still alive.

What are you thankful for?

I am thankful for my family. I am thankful for the miracles I witness every day in watching my son grow. I am thankful that my parents are still alive after what they have each gone through in the past year. I am thankful for a loving and supportive wife, whose strengths compliment my weaknesses and vice versa.

It's not about remembering the story of the first europeans and the indians having a celebratory feast. It's about remembering that each and every one of us is a pilgrim, passing through this life on our journey to what lays beyond. Who we meet and the provisions that we are given are part of God's design for our lives. How we choose to interact with those people and how we choose to use the material posessions God gives us is up to us.

What are you thankful for?

I am thankful for my friends. I am thankful for the people in life that have taken the time to get to know me and to love me. I am thankful for my home. I am thankful for the opportunities that I have had in the past year to open up my home to people and break bread with them. I am thankful for my thick fingers and broken voice with which I can play and sing songs of praise and worship.

It's not about just giving thanks for our material blessings. It's also about giving thanks to a God that has set eternity into the hearts of men.

What are you thankful for?

Psalm 100

1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.