A Week of Thanksgiving

Author: Sharon Verrett

www.saverrmarriage.com

Today is the first day of this week, the beginning of a week of giving thanks. We have so much in which to be thankful, that we should not focus on just one day or a week.

We should thank God for all the blessings, He bestows on us daily. He gives us much more than we appreciate or can count.

We are so blessed, and so use to living in America, that some of us think this is the normal.

Data has shown that we, Americans, who are poor, still live better than most of the rest of humanity.

I always believe it is a natural human instinct to not appreciate where we are, when we have nothing else to compare. Look at our children and how ungrateful they often stand.

So let us observe some of the less fortunate people that surround us and give more thanks and appreciation for what our God has given us, mainly the great opportunity of life and the opportunity of salvation.

Let us give thanks for the love we experience from our spouses, friends and family.

Let us give thanks for good health, fair health that can be made better by changing our habits and just the opportunity to be a part of being.

Let us give thanks for our families- functional or otherwise and learn to pray for the otherwise, non-functional.

Let us step away from finding fault and placing irrational judgement and practice love, like Christ love. Read more…