Happy Thanksgiving. I pray that each and everyone of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Please take the time during this week and just thank God for all He has done for you. Remember, It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart. I am reminded of this story told by Tom Olson
Time for Thanksgiving
When the New England Colonies were first planted, the settlers endured many privations and difficulties. Being piously disposed, they laid their distresses before God in frequent days of fasting and prayer. Constant meditation upon distress kept their minds gloomy and discontented, and made them disposed even to return to their fatherland, with all its persecutions. At length, when it was again proposed to appoint a day of fasting and prayer, a plain, commonsense old colonist rose in the meeting and remarked that he thought they had brooded long enough over their difficulties, and that it seemed high time they should consider some of their mercies; that the colony was growing strong, the fields increasing in harvest, the rivers full of fish, the woods full of game, the air sweet, the climate salubrious, their wives healthful, and their children dutiful; above all, that they possessed what they came for, full civil and religious liberty. On the whole, he would amend the resolution for a fast, and propose in its stead a day of thanksgiving. His advice was taken.
Let us be thankful in all things at all times. For we have Christ within us, a perfect place prepared for us, and eternity promised to us. What more could there ever be. I am a child of the King!!
David Flood
Pastor
