Since Friday, how times have you heard someone say they’d like a turkey sandwich? How about a turkey anything? People who don’t liketurkey (or fight against it) supplement or substitute ham, beef roast, or even burgers and pizza. Most folks celebrated Thanksgiving with a feast, eating until they were past full, like I did. However you celebrated, I hope you had a great day with family and/or friends sharing good times, whether it was around a table full of food or not. Most importantly, I hope you paused long enough to truly say thanks for your many blessings. As Christians, we (should) recognize God as the ultimate source of our blessings; our everything.
Most thanks are positive in nature. Thank you for my family, my friends, my job, house, food on the table, etc. Some thanks can seem negative in nature. Now I’m not talking about like when we were kids and we were thankful we didn’t get caught and get in trouble. No, these are grown up things. How about thanks for a negative test result from the doctor because it means the disease is gone. Thanks for a relationship not splitting up because they’ve decided to stay together and try again. Thanks for staying with a difficult job because of the promotion that came after the trials and hard work.
Whatever your reason for thanks, I hope you stopped and purposefully gave thanks to the Giver of all things – Almighty God. Even though Thanksgiving is the beginning of the busiest time of year, let’s not forget that it’s also the most wonderful time of the year. I am so thankful that God understood the terrible situation humanity had gotten itself into and decided to do something about it by sending His only Son, Jesus down to earth to provide a (THE) solution. Now that’s something to be thankful for!!
Mark your calendars for Sunday night, December 20. You won’t want to miss “The Big Christmas Broadcast of 1943” and our annual church-wide Christmas dinner.
love ya, Bret.
