I have so, so many things to be thankful for this year. Way too many to list here. 2010 has been a blessed year, but we'll save that for the year-end review.
Thanksgiving is especially sentimental for me this year. As some of you may remember, I was baptized into the Church in May. The baptism was following a sermon on what? Yep. Giving thanks. Not forgetting God during the good times.
We are so quick to go to God when we need something but don't always remember Him when things are going smoothly. We take things for granted. We forget that He is our ultimate provider and that without Him we would have and would be nothing.
I believe everything happens for a reason, and I believe with all my heart that I was meant to go to church that morning after not having stepped foot in one in the better part of 10 years. I was meant to hear that sermon because, believe me, it couldn't have affected me more if the hand of God had come through that ceiling and smacked me upside the head. I HAD forgotten God. I WAS taking everything for granted. I WAS one of those people that was all, "Why, God, why???" when things would go bad and then when things would settle down I returned to my conceited mindset that I was in control. That sermon was exactly the one that I needed to hear to get me on track.
I've learned a lot of things in the past few months. Seriously. A LOT. I didn't realize how much I didn't know until I started learning a smidgen of it. But one of the things that I have learned is how to truly be thankful. I am thankful for my happy days and sad days, days with trials and days without. Each and every one is a blessing straight from God.
I Thessalonians 5:16-18 - Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYBODY!!!Labels: church, Thanksgiving