Thanksgiving is Never Really Over

Thanksgiving is never really over.
I don't mean because of the pounds of dry turkey
you'll be eating for months and months and months.

Turkey soup,
turkey sandwiches,
turkey and rice,
turkey cheddar broccoli casserole,
turkey and cranberry casserole
are ways we try to get rid of the poultry.
We should never try to get rid of the
spirit of Thanksgiving
we've been feasting on for the past week.


We've discussed it's the Lord's will that

in

everything
we

Give Thanks.

Easy to say,

hard to do.

The spirit is willing,

but the flesh is weak.

(Stone from Dutch Mill, Inc.)

As parents, we understand

thank you.

More than a bajillion times in our parenting history

we'll remind, instruct and downright nag our kids to use these

two very lovely words.

They're two words that mean so much.

But giving thanks is more than just vocalizing the right words,

it's to be grateful or to feel thankful.

It's an act that emcompasses body, soul and spirit.

It isn't true thanksgiving without this trinity of our humanity.

When someone has given us a gift that we 

couldn't afford,

didn't expect,

don't deserve and

couldn't provide for ourselves,

we feel indebted to them.

In fact, sometimes our words seem lame,

compared to the gratitude welling up within our hearts,

but we say them anyway,

hoping, in our weakness, to convey the depths of our thanksgiving. 

The Lord has given us a great gift that we

couldn't afford,

didn't expect,

don't deserve and

couldn't provide for ourselves.

It's right that we feel indebted to Him.

It's right that we go through life

thankful for our beautiful Savior,

the Lord Jesus Christ.

Long after you've eaten the last turkey leftovers,
may you still be consumed with thanksgiving,
because Christians understand thanksgiving isn't a holiday,
it's the Lord's will for our lives.

In

everything

give

thanks.

'Cuz, ya' know,

thanksgiving is never really over.