Thanksgiving.....Everyday!

Being Thankful Everyday

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day where millions of people were feasting on the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner with family and friends and sometimes, stranger. This time of the year people think of the many things to be thankful for. But, I think that this is the time when we should be being thankful all the time.

Now I wonder why we think of being so thankful on Thanksgiving Day.  As I sit and think of all the many things to be grateful for as I sit in my  warm and loving home with plenty of food and family.  I am thinking of the people still effected by Hurricane Sandy. I am thinking of my friends whose loved ones didn't see this holiday season, I think of the homeless, the battered, the abused where abuse increases during the holiday season.  Yes, I am thankful, and you are thankful and need to be thankful everyday.

I am starting with my kids before we start the day to give thanks to the Lord for another blessed night and day and give one thing that they are thankful for.  I want my children to realize just how blessed they are.  They want for nothing, they have a loving family, and all the necessities. I want them to think of kids there age that go to bed with no bed, go to bed with not enough food, go home to an inadequate home, with barely the necessities.  Yes, I want them to be thankful everyday because at any time circumstances and predicaments can change.  

As I sat last night with pain in my legs and back, I was about to get down on myself and negative I stopped myself. I asked for forgiveness for these negative thoughts and start turning my thoughts to what I am thankful for.  Though I am in pain, I have insurance that covers the medicine to take the pain away.  Though my feet and legs hurt, praise God I still have feet and legs that function.  I immediately started giving thanks for my blessings, my children who are thriving and healthy and strong, a loving husband, a wonderful mother who is still living and healthy, those precious memories of those gone to Heaven,  time spent with  my brother and my niece, time spent with my friends, all the necessities and even better yet, extras, luxuries. So, there is no room for complaints in my life.  And if you think carefully enough, you will open your eyes and see that everyday we should be thankful, no matter how big or how small.  

So, I am thankful, so very thankful, but this thankfulness for my family and I will be daily. Just giving thanks daily.  I want my children to realize how blessed they are and to be grateful.  So, yes, Thanksgiving Day is wonderful, but giving thanks daily, now that is priceless.