Should We Celebrate Thanksgiving

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"Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish." (John 6:11 NIV)

I just ran across an article entitled "How to Prepare Yourself to Eat as Much as Humanly Possible." My first thought was the author must be from Europe. In America we re born knowing how to eat as much as humanly possible. We are the land of the free and the home of the Golden Corral. We not only invented the airplane, but the buffalo chicken wing, the blooming onion (don't believe and Australian who tells you different) and the fried candy bar.

Why we even have the all you can eat salad bar. Because being healthy doesn't count if you can't have as much of it as you want. I …show more content…

First I don't want to appear hypocritical, and I honestly believe celebration is biblical. We just need to remember so is moderation. So please enjoy all the good things you can and might eat from now through the New Year's day. I'm going to.

But isn't it interesting that the way we celebrate Thanksgiving is by having a huge meal. Thanksgiving is that time of year when we stop and think about all the things we have to be thankful in our lives. We count our blessings. You might even have the tradition where everyone at the tabel goes around and says what they are thankful for. And then we sit down at a table overflowing with blessings and largesse and have even more.

Mind you, as I said I am all for celebration . Theer is nothing particularly spiritual about wearing along face all the time. And good food. I do wonder thought about the subliminal messe that says we are only thankful when we have a lot of something. We are thankful when we have a lot. When you table is overflowing. The more I have the more thankful I …show more content…

Do we focus more on the resources or on the relationship? When we focus on the resources its not always easy to be thankful. We can also find ourselves slipping into idol worship and becoming materialistic and self-centered. When we focus on teh relationship we find that we can be thankful no matter what our situations are, because God is still God. He is still good, He still loves us and He is still on the throne. It's not about burying our head in the sand, so much as it I is being able to see beyond what we have to the reality of goodness that lies beyond and sometimes even in spite of our resources. This is why Paul says "in all things give thanks" (I Thessalonians 5:18) Not because of what you have, but because of whose you

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