Here we are in the month of November, a month to sit, reflect, and give thanks to God for the gifts in our lives. On this November 2009, Thanksgiving 2009, what do you have to be thankful for in your life?
Maybe its memories of times past, your health, that you live in the United States of America where we have so much that others in third world countries only dream of and never believe they will see in their life time. Maybe you are going through struggles right now and all you can think is “YEA RIGHT TELL ME HOW TO BE THANKFUL FOR THIS ONE! OH IF YOU ONLY KNEW WHAT I’VE BEEN THROUGH!” The greatest gifts are the smallest gifts but we live in a world that recognizes value by quantity and not the beauty that lies before our very eyes.
On this month of Thanksgiving let us spend every day, all 30 days, in Thanksgiving. I challenge you to take the time each day for 30 days beginning November 1st to write down what has happened that day to be thankful for.
Then on December 1st take time to reflect on what you have written for the past thirty days and share your thankfulness with others.
Wouldn’t the world be a better place to live in if we would only stop to be thankful, not thankless?
And what ever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
I love you,
Pastor Walter
Tremont City United Methodist Church
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