Good Morning, Church! I send you Happy Thanksgiving greetings. This is a day for celebrating how we have come through great adversities with God’s provisions and blessings. On this National Day of Thanksgiving, we may feel a closer kinship with the folks at the first Thanksgiving in this new land for Pilgrims and for this homeland of Native people. The Pilgrims who were present were the survivors of a taxing ship journey, of much illness that had claimed many lives, much hard work to endure a harsh new normal for their lives and the blessing of hospitality from folks who were the bridge into this new world.
While there is much conversation today about how different our world is, the truth is that so many before us have blazed the trail for our present time.
May you have moments of rest and connection today with those who went before and the folks we journey with presently. May we have grateful hearts and kindness to share with our own families and strangers as well.
I share this Thanksgiving Day prayer with you.
Gracious God, you are always more ready to meet us where we are and supply enough for us to safely get through the journey. Often our appetites, like those of the Hebrew people in the wilderness, is for something we do not have. Thank you, God,, for your patience and your generosity. Help us to claim those same attributes today as we feast, wherever we are and with whomever we are. Amen.
Blessings for this day to you all,
Ray