Happy Thanksgiving
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Don’t you just love this time of year? It’s a busy, hectic season, especially if you are traveling, but family is worth it. A few holiday tips for the day before:
- Do everything you can do today, so that tomorrow is more fun.
- Perfection may not be defined like Martha Stuart or Southern Living would suggest.
- How can you make this day more fun and less work? (If it is too late, think about next year.)
- How will you speak a word of gratitude to almost everyone you encounter today?
- How can your joy, peace, and kindness point others to the fact that you belong to God?
The next several weeks are an opportunity to share your faith with others. That isn’t so much a plan as it is a commitment to listen to the voice of Christ. Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” John 10:27.
I don’t have to know you. I don’t have to know your gifts. I only need to know that my readers want to honor God with their lives. My job is to remind you to live Thanksgiving with his joy and especially, his voice. You will be amazed at the number of times Jesus will say, “I need you to listen and speak for me, please.”
Christians have been chosen to live for Christ’s purpose so that others can become his children. It really is that simple.
“Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
and the voices of those who celebrate.
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will make them honored, and they shall not be small” (Jeremiah 30:19).
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. May his “songs” and his blessings fill your holiday with his abundant love!
