It’s that glorious time of year!
Time for turkey, pie, football, and sweatpants!
And maybe some time to reflect and be thankful…
But maybe this is your first year alone because your kids are at the other parent’s house, you recently lost your job, or a family member is struggling with a serious health issue.
Maybe it has been a season of stress and trials so you are asking, “What’s there to be thankful for?”
So often we tend to focus on the problems and forget the joys in life. Yes, sometimes it might take work to find a good amongst the bad but it’s there. Sometimes, it takes a shift in perspective to find the good.
It may be the simple fact that you work up to see another day.
Maybe you are without your kids this year so how can you find the good in that? You could cook food they wouldn’t eat. Or you could invite over friends or others who may be alone as well.
Just like I choose to be way too full because I ate that extra piece of pie, so can we choose to be thank-full.
Don’t reach for the cranberry sauce of ungratefulness instead seek out that slice of delicious pie of thankfulness.
“Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.”
– Psalm 107:8-9