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Let's Take a Minute to ​Say Thank You!

11/15/2021

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The holiday's are great for decorating, family traditions, spending time with family and friends, and enjoying amazing food. But if we're not careful, we can find ourselves so caught up in the idea of the holiday that we forget to actually celebrate the point of the holiday. With Thanksgiving just 10 day's away, we want to make sure that we take a minute to say thank you!

We've taken time to share some of our traditions, and what we're looking forward to  this Thanksgiving.  We've started sharing some snacks ideas, and thoughts on how to prepare for the Thanksgiving meal. And we'll be sharing some more ideas for family fun on Thanksgiving and the days that follow.

But, even with all of that, we don't want to miss the opportunity to actually pause and say, Thank You! So let's take a minute to say, thanks! 
In the Bible, in the book called, Colossians, chapter 3, verse 17, we read the following words, "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:17 ESV)

Often when we look at this verse, we spend time considering the, "what we do..." the 'whatever you do, in word or deed,' and doing it in the name of the Lord Jesus. We put the emphasis in the doing and in the name of Jesus. We spin it as, as you do all that you do, do it in the name of Jesus. We miss, however, the "giving thanks to God..."
Yes, we are to do everything we do for the glory of Jesus, but how often do we stop to say thank you for the opportunity to do the things we do?

​Today leaves us 10 days from Thanksgiving. We're going to have an amazing day, with an amazing dinner. But what are we saying thank you for, and who are we saying thank you too? Think about it, with all the effort we put into preparing for Thanksgiving, when it comes to saying, thank you, we generally miss the mark.

We've been there. Sure, we'll sit around the table and each person will share something their thankful for and we'll record it in our Thanksgiving book. But for the most part, the things we're thankful for are simple. We're thankful for our family, for sports, for our dog, for the food on the table, and for football in the yard. 

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And while, these things aren't bad, and yes we should be thankful for them, we often think, shouldn't we be more thoughtful about what we're thankful for? Even in our lives as adults, is there something more that we should be thankful for?

As we read this verse, our thought is, yes, we should consider what we're thankful for more thoughtfully. Are we thankful for the little things, the big things, the easy things, and the hard things? Are we thankful for the daily things, the waking up things, and the going to sleep things? Are we thankful for the mundane things and the unique things? Are we able to say thank you when we can't, or don't want to say, Thank you?
What would it look like this Thanksgiving to take a minute to really say, thank you?

What would you say thank you for?

We think that that's the challenge. At least that's what we want to challenge ourselves with this Thanksgiving, what are we truly thankful for?

Perhaps this Thanksgiving we might all take a step back to consider all that we might be thankful for this year.

​- the higham family

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