Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. Hope you survive all of the turkey and football and hope that your team prevails.
I was reminded last evening that it is not always easy to give thanks. One of my daughter’s close friends was in a bad car accident that has put at least three people in critical condition one an infant in the other car that was not in a car seat and ejected from the car during the accident.
Your Thanksgiving will likely not be as traumatic. But being around extended family with all of the relational issues that families can create can cause stress of its own. Sometimes we lose sight of the things we about which we are thankful in the midst of all of the chaos.
It is hard to remember that all that we have both the good and the bad come into our lives for a purpose. That is the basis for Paul’s exhortation to us in 1 Thessalonians 5:18. The exhortation is “all things,” not just the things that we think are good. All things.
Your Thanksgiving will likely not be as traumatic. But being around extended family with all of the relational issues that families can create can cause stress of its own. Sometimes we lose sight of the things we about which we are thankful in the midst of all of the chaos.
It is hard to remember that all that we have both the good and the bad come into our lives for a purpose. That is the basis for Paul’s exhortation to us in 1 Thessalonians 5:18. The exhortation is “all things,” not just the things that we think are good. All things.
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