Thanksgiving 2023

[Napsterdad]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My favorite holiday. The Pastor Emeritus at our church does a weekly podcast and this week it focuses on Thanksgiving (called Gratitude). You can find it in Apple Podcasts here: From My Heart to Yours en Apple Podcasts, or on Player FM here: Gratitude From My Heart To Yours podcast (player.fm).

Thankfulness is mentioned at least 71 times in the Bible, and Gratitude 157 times. Yet many of us reserve only one day a year to place a special emphasis on this aspect of our walk. The Bible says:

1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Every day in my prayers I know I express my gratitude to God, but the number of times I make that an emphasis is far fewer than I care to acknowledge. This coming year I hope to do better.

I hope this podcast is a blessing to you, I pray that you all have a very blessed and Happy Thanksgiving (from my heart to yours )

[BrotherTony]

Same to you and yours, Brother. 

[HappyChristian]

Thank you, same to you. Looking forward to spending a few hours with our son/dil/grandson and her family tomorrow. God is so good!

[Pastor Matt]

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

[Salyan]

Wasn’t Thanksgiving like a month ago? 

[BrotherTony]

On 11/26/2023 at 4:09 PM, Salyan said:

Wasn’t Thanksgiving like a month ago? 

Not in this country!

[Rebecca]

Happy Thanksgiving! I spent the holiday with other missionaries I don't see very often, and met some new missionary families. We had a nice time of fellowship.  

I'm thankful for friendships and family, as well as a reliable car that got me over the mountain, haha! I got spoiled with a new road that cut through the mountains from one side of the island to the other, it cut off a lot of travel time and is much safer. It was closed for whatever reason and I had to take the old mountain road... 

[TheGloryLand]

On 11/26/2023 at 5:09 PM, Salyan said:

Wasn’t Thanksgiving like a month ago? 

Reading and replying to this post today 11/20/24 makes me wonder, how can we go from Halloween to Christmas and bypass Thanksgiving? Christmas things everywhere and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet.  

[BrotherTony]

1 hour ago, TheGloryLand said:

Reading and replying to this post today 11/20/24 makes me wonder, how can we go from Halloween to Christmas and bypass Thanksgiving? Christmas things everywhere and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet.  

Yeppers... many of us have noticed how over the past 50+ years Tom Turkey has been pushed off the road by the fat man in the bright red suit, flying around with his eight tiny reindeer! LOL The over commercialization of Christmas has gotten way out of hand! My parents Western Wear Store would NEVER allow Thanksgiving to be bypassed. None of the decorations for Christmas at their store came out until BLACK FRIDAY. I'm thankful for that.