Bless the Lord

 Thanksgiving Day is almost here. Once a year we gather with family and friends and look back on the past several months, remembering God’s goodness to us. Thanksgiving is a time of reflection, it’s a time of celebration. It can also be a time of bittersweet sacrifice. Maybe things didn’t go so well for us this year, but we still saw God’s hand pulling us through it all. Maybe we lost a loved one this year. Yet we can thank God for the time we did have with that person or persons. We have breath in our lungs. Many if not most of us have sound minds and healthy bodies. If we battle with a disease, God’s strength sustained us another day. We are blessed. Yes, we can look around at the way the country and the world is turning and say, can it get any worse? But we can also say that more and more people are seeing the light of Christ in the darkest of hours so far. What will you concentrate on this thanksgiving? Offer up thanks, no matter how painful it may be right now. Watch God work on your behalf. Your story gets better as long as it’s in his hands. 

Happy thanksgiving!