Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving. In doing my morning email/website rounds I cam across a lot of good posts on Thanksgiving and particularly on thanking God. I thought I'd direct you to them.

I get these devotionals every morning and one encouraged you that the more you thank God for the little things the more your faith grows. Here's an excerpt:

Learning to be thankful -- even when we cannot see, hear or understand what He is doing or how He is working - is authentic thanksgiving and the direct result of a living, active and personal faith in God. We often say that we need more faith in order to be more thankful. I don't think so! We operate in faith every single day. We flip a switch believing in faith that light will appear. We turn a key believing in faith that a car will start. We even go to a doctor we hardly know who scribbles an impossible to read prescription which we promptly take to a pharmacist we have never seen. This unknown druggist proceeds to fill the prescription, giving us a medicine we cannot pronounce. And we take it -- all in blind faith! Amazing!



I believe that instead of pleading for more faith, we need to exercise the faith we already possess. As we continually step out in faith, not only will that faith grow stronger, but we will begin to trust God more, naturally developing an attitude of thanks. Faith does not believe that God can or will act. Faith believes that God is answering as we pray. And that truth, my friend, will send us to our knees in praise and thanksgiving.

Then I came over and read pretty much the same thoughts on this sister's website. So good. Pray that I learn to give more thanks. Particularly, when it seems things are not going well. Happy Thanksgiving!