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The Journey Continues

The Journey Continues: Living a Thankful life

Sunday, November 21, 2021

My journey this year for Thanksgiving will find Judy and me at home eating turkey and pie without a gathering of family or friends. The virus is disruptive to our flow of annual events; it has changed the shopping, celebrating and traveling patterns for all of us.

I am not thankful for COVID-19 and 2021 is certainly a year where secular events of the Thanksgiving season have been challenged. In past years it has been easy to count our material blessings, to enjoy plentiful food, to take the absence of war as the definition of peace and to ignore social injustices that do not affect us.

What Thanksgiving Day do you remember the most? My memory turns to 1960, when at Texas A&M it was a requirement that all the student body attend the annual Turkey Day football game between UT and A&M, which that year was held in Austin. After the game, the long ride from Austin to West Texas was delayed due to the breakdown of my Aggie buddy’s car. I had written home to ask my Dad to meet me in Anson at the courthouse square and estimated our arrival time to be about midnight. Because of our late start, the sun was coming up over the courthouse when we reached Anson. How thankful I am for my Dad, who had waited all night for my arrival. On that day there were no cell phones, and no telephone service on the ranch, and I sure was thankful to arrive home.

John MacArthur, a Christian pastor, said all believers need to rekindle the Attitude of Gratitude for the following five blessings:

1. Be thankful for Christ who has saved us, and we know it.

2 Be thankful we have Scripture which comforts us with eternal truths.

3.Be thankful that during Life’s Storms, God is there in our lives.

4. Be thankful for the faithful church, the body of Christ, where we find fellowship and spiritual messages.

5. Be thankful daily to God for the people we have as family and friends — those we can lean on and who can lean on us.

Keeping all of this in mind, the verses that follow are from my heart: Psalm 28:7(NIV), “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.” John 21:25(NIV), “Jesus did many other things as well — If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18(NIV), “Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” John 3:16(NIV), “For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only , that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

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