Families across America will gathering tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving. In church fellowship halls, in schools, fraternal order meeting halls and in missions everywhere, people without families will find a holiday meal to share with strangers.
Over the course of this year, I have been reflecting regularly upon a passage from Ephesians that has served to help me stay grounded and focused. I find that it helps to be actually gratiful to God for his gifts. I share Ephesians 2:4-10 as a reminder from who all good gifts come.
But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
May you find many people tomorrow to whom you can say thanks.
Thank you very much.
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