Mt. Sophia Ideas

I think Thanksgiving is a wonderful, patriotic holiday.  And it isn’t just because I love cranberry sauce.  It is important for us to take a moment once in awhile to express gratitude for the blessings we enjoy as a nation.  Those of you who know me know that I tend to get a little carried away with all things political, but that isn’t the whole story.

Gratitude isn’t something Christians are only supposed to put on the table one Thursday a year beside the turkey and stuffing.  God’s word commands (not suggests, but commands) that we praise our Creator with thanksgiving in all things, at all times. Just a quick search of scripture turns up 110 commands to give thanks to God.  If you think about it, it’s not hard to do that in just a single day…

Dear God,

Thank you for the golden sun

Giving warmth and light

As well as clouds that sometimes

Hide it from my view

Thank you for another day

Of life in your creation

Using every sense you gave me

To find beauty everywhere

Thank you for my home, my bed

The food that keeps me strong

Remind me that these blessings

Come from your own hand

Thank you for my family

Those by birth and those by faith

Who choose to walk beside me

Through the triumphs and the trials

Thank you for the autumn rains

Dropping gently through the night

[Though I wish I was asleep right now

And didn’t hear their song]

Thank you for enduring love

You gave to me so freely

Even when I didn’t know

How very much it cost

You get the idea…   I won’t bore you with all 110 of my reasons for being grateful today, but maybe you could start your own list?

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