Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving 2007
Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ to you my dear brothers and sisters on this Thanksgiving Day. This is a good thanksgiving celebration coming together before the Lord to give thanks to Him for all what he is doing for us .Always look on the bright side of life that will keep us going.
Today when we look at our life thanking God we realize that "Our Cup Runes Over". God blessed us with everything.Because our cup runes over and we can drink from the saucer, we should remember those whose cups are empty and have been for a long time. They are not far from us. They may live in your own community or even be in your own church (maybe your own family). There are certainly many out there all over the world who have so little. We have so much. Let us find ways to share the abundance of our blessings with them. That is perhaps one of the best ways to celebrate the Thanksgiving day today.
This Thanksgiving Day is essentially acting out of an attitude: An attitude of gratitude. It is a great national recognition that we have been blessed by God.
Today, Thanksgiving Day is a family time. If you have ever been forced by circumstances to be away from your family on Thanksgiving Day, you have experienced a true feeling of loneliness. Thanksgiving Day defines family. We gather together and ask the blessing, we say grace, thanking God for the bounty and for His promise for continued blessings. Hardly anybody skips grace on this great day.Learning to be thankful, whether to God or to other people, is the best vaccination against taking good fortune for granted. And the less you take for granted, the more pleasure and joy life will bring you. If you never give a moment's thought to the fact that your health is good, that your children are well-fed, that your home is comfortable, that your nation is at peace, if you assume that the good things in your life are ''normal'' and to be expected, you diminish the happiness they can bring you. By contrast, if you train yourself to reflect on how much worse off you could be, if you develop the custom of counting your blessings and being grateful for them, you will fill your life with cheer. Be thankful. Don't take the gifts in your life for granted. Remember - as the Pilgrims remembered - that we are impoverished without each other, and without God. Whoever and wherever you are this Thanksgiving, the good in your life outweighs the bad. If that doesn't deserve our gratitude, what does? Always look on the bright side of life because really and truly our cup is running over. Let us finish with the blessing prayer of King Solomon (I Kings8: 55-61). “May the Lord, Our God, be with us as he was with our fathers and may he not forsake us nor cast us off. May he draw our hearts to himself, that we may follow him in everything and keep the commands, statues, and ordinances which he enjoyed on our fathers.”
May God Bless us all. Happy Thanksgiving Day to you all.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ to you my dear brothers and sisters on this Thanksgiving Day. This is a good thanksgiving celebration coming together before the Lord to give thanks to Him for all what he is doing for us .Always look on the bright side of life that will keep us going.
Today when we look at our life thanking God we realize that "Our Cup Runes Over". God blessed us with everything.Because our cup runes over and we can drink from the saucer, we should remember those whose cups are empty and have been for a long time. They are not far from us. They may live in your own community or even be in your own church (maybe your own family). There are certainly many out there all over the world who have so little. We have so much. Let us find ways to share the abundance of our blessings with them. That is perhaps one of the best ways to celebrate the Thanksgiving day today.
This Thanksgiving Day is essentially acting out of an attitude: An attitude of gratitude. It is a great national recognition that we have been blessed by God.
Today, Thanksgiving Day is a family time. If you have ever been forced by circumstances to be away from your family on Thanksgiving Day, you have experienced a true feeling of loneliness. Thanksgiving Day defines family. We gather together and ask the blessing, we say grace, thanking God for the bounty and for His promise for continued blessings. Hardly anybody skips grace on this great day.Learning to be thankful, whether to God or to other people, is the best vaccination against taking good fortune for granted. And the less you take for granted, the more pleasure and joy life will bring you. If you never give a moment's thought to the fact that your health is good, that your children are well-fed, that your home is comfortable, that your nation is at peace, if you assume that the good things in your life are ''normal'' and to be expected, you diminish the happiness they can bring you. By contrast, if you train yourself to reflect on how much worse off you could be, if you develop the custom of counting your blessings and being grateful for them, you will fill your life with cheer. Be thankful. Don't take the gifts in your life for granted. Remember - as the Pilgrims remembered - that we are impoverished without each other, and without God. Whoever and wherever you are this Thanksgiving, the good in your life outweighs the bad. If that doesn't deserve our gratitude, what does? Always look on the bright side of life because really and truly our cup is running over. Let us finish with the blessing prayer of King Solomon (I Kings8: 55-61). “May the Lord, Our God, be with us as he was with our fathers and may he not forsake us nor cast us off. May he draw our hearts to himself, that we may follow him in everything and keep the commands, statues, and ordinances which he enjoyed on our fathers.”
May God Bless us all. Happy Thanksgiving Day to you all.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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