A time for Thanksgiving

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I would like to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving holiday. I hope you all were able to reflect on what you are thankful for and spend some time with your family or those that you love. 

Wait....what? You don't know what this holiday means? Well for my friends that do not live in the U.S., let me explain. According to google AI..."Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in the United States as a time for gratitude, community, and togetherness, rooted in a 1621 harvest feast shared by Pilgrims and Wampanoag Native Americans."

So in the U.S. we celebrate and give thanks for our community and family. It has also evolved into togetherness with family. For my family, we get together and have a great meal of turkey and dressing and all the fixins! The dressing is my papaw's dressing that has been handed down. It is a revered recipe that only a select few have! And guess what...I am not one of them! I don't know what you have to do in my family to get it. I guess I need to figure that out. And you can't forget about the chocolate pie my aunt makes! You have to eat dessert first if you want a slice of it!

But back to Thanksgiving. This is a time when we celebrate our family and friends and pray for each other and our country, giving thanks for all the blessings we have. We take time to remember the many blessings God has given us and the love he has for us. I love being with my family. I have a large family. And when we get together, it seems to make the house seem so small from all of us. But I love seeing my family that I do not get to see much, catching up with them and seeing how much all the young un's have grown! With family, no matter how long you are apart, it is like you never were, and you just pick up where you left off. That is the joy of family, the unconditional love and support you have. 

Even though you may not celebrate a thanksgiving holiday, you can still celebrate thanksgiving by giving thanks for all that has been given to you. It may be blessings with family, children, a home, a pet, a good meal, chocolate, warm socks, a fluffy blanket....sorry I got carried away! But whatever it is, whatever your blessings are, give thanks and praise to God for all he has given you. 

Colossians 2:7 "rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness."

1 Chronicles 16:34 “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "Rejoice always, pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

Love to all,