Thanksgiving Day is not about the turkey. It's not about cooking pies, smoking a turkey, being off from work, or sleeping late. It is all about being thankful, more than your everyday thankfulness. It's a day we set aside back in the 1800's to stop and reflect what we have been blessed with turning the time of reflection into being seriously thankful. I don't know about you but when when I am having a rough time in life, i stop and look around. More than likely, if you just look around, you will see what you have that is a blessing.
On Thanksgiving Day, with all its hustle and bustle and family and friends...try taking time to slow down and look around you. See the things you may be taking advantage of and not being thankful for. Stop and reflect with your heart and soul and mind what you are blessed with, and then be thankful!
Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks. Have you thanked your spouse for putting up with you? Have you thanked your kids for always loving you no matter what? Have you thanked your boss for giving you the job? Have you thanked your friends for always being there for you? Have you thanked your neighbors for helping you when you were in a jam? Have you thanked God for his blessings?
TAKE THE CHALLENGE
This thanksgiving as you sit around the feast table, try staying seated for 1 hour and not just eating and leaving. Take this time to share thankfulness with each other. Go around the table and give one thing you are thankful for. Share stories of how you have been blessed. Take the time to give thanks to God for your home and for those things that we don't deserve but have been given. You can do it!
