Thanksgiving for Life

This has been a very interesting Thanksgiving. Yesterday, as I often do on November 22, I thought back to the day JFK was killed, now sixty years ago. It had a huge impact on our family, and the nuns at our school were deeply hurt at the first Catholic president dying in his relative youth. Life is very precious.

More recently, we just returned from a healing and special time with my Mom and sisters, and a wonderful brother-in-law. At 96, my mom told me she is thankful each day to have another day to be alive, pray, and love her family and others. That seems to me to be a pretty good way to live.

Ephesians 5:20,21:
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Submitting yourselves [setting yourself under to serve; giving preference] one to another in the respect of Christ.

I’m learning that we can always give thanks for all the good things our Father has done for us. And I thank Him with the full authority behind what Jesus accomplished for us with his life, death, resurrection, and ascension. I’m thankful each day to claim blessings, help, and deliverance through the powerful name of Jesus Christ, my Lord.

This really is the day the Lord has made. We should rejoice and be thankful in it. Sherry and I are thankful to be alive another day to appreciate God’s goodness. And we are full of thanksgiving for your love, prayers, and fellowship.