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Be Thankful




Since my "other" job is in retail, We will celebrate Thanksgiving probably next week.

Before anyone gets a whip for the stores open on Thanksgiving,

please know that they would not be open if people were not there shopping

 and I am more than happy to celebrate later or earlier whatever works out best.

Thanksgiving should be and is, at least for me,  a time to pause and cultivate a thankful spirit.

So whether I celebrated yesterday or today, or sometime next week was not a big deal to me.

However, as I watched the mad frenzy of people

running around hoping to get that great deal on a sweeper or 

TV,

Or some other product that was on sale,

I was reminded there in the store of how truly blessed I am.

The thought occurred to me 

that there is nothing I truly need.

Yes, there are things I might like,

But I have a house,

 clothes and a car

more than enough food.

I am not rolling in money

but thanks be to God who has blessed me,

I have what I need.

My life is not perfect;

yes I have hard  days

 and face many trials,

But I know that God has blessed me more than I deserve.

So Today as I wind down from all the madness that comes with Black Friday
on Thursday, I want to praise God and thank him for all the blessings I have received.

Being thankful should be a part of our everyday life, 

not something we do on one Thursday in November.
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