Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is almost upon us. It has been one of my favorite holidays since I can remember because of such wonderful memories - plus it's one of those holidays that modern merchants have had a difficult time exploiting with commercialism. Well, except perhaps for the poultry producers but they don't have to advertise much since getting a turkey on the table is an American tradition since the time of the colonies! But ... sadly, we have had commercialization come into existence but not Thanksgiving per se - they've skipped Thanksgiving and started putting out Christmas flyers and bulletins and sales even before Halloween has happened. It's one big commercial for gifts until well AFTER Christmas. It's rather dismaying.

But I still give thanks. I thank God for a fairly sound body even though I'm almost 55 yrs old. I still can't grasp the thought that I'm becoming an old man. And it frightens me. I don't accept it very well at all. But I'm still thankful that after surviving 20 years of military life including spent in the Middle East deserts that I've survived and fairly thrived.

I thank God for my wife, my children and grandchildren as well as my brother and two sisters. I'm thankful to have a job (even if I am about to lose it) and I'm thankful to be living in the truly freest nation on the earth.

But mosty I thank God for His son Jesus Christ, who came down to this earth as a helpless baby and became the sinless man and sacrifice for my sins - all of hunaity's sins.

I pray that anyone who reads this and believes that they stop can thank God for all that they (we) have in this world.

God bless and keep everyone that I know and don't know - close and in His heart.